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[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|link=Category:Missions|Missions|thumb|left]]
..., lightweight, mirrored ''solar sails''. They enable travel throughout the solar system and beyond without rocket propellant. SolarSailWiki covers everythin
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This is a reference to Colin McInnes' <em>Solar Sailing</em><cite>McInnes1999</cite>.
[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|link=Category:Missions|Missions|thumb|left]]
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Just as the internet is growing dramatically, so is interest in solar sails.
...ce+sail+OR+sails+OR+sailing%22&btnG=Google+Search "solar OR light OR space sail OR sails OR sailing"] on Google.
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[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|thumb|IKAROS passing Venus]]
...past Venus on December 8, 2010, at a distance of 80,800km and continues to sail in orbit around the sun.
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...he [[wikipedia:Czech Republic|Czech Republic]], possibly featuring a solar sail.
317 B (42 words) - 11:02, 8 October 2010
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...cturing equipment. Their design was to be launched on a race against other sail designs by groups around the world in a race to the moon and mars.
*Website: http://sail.quarkweb.com/
920 B (150 words) - 12:15, 22 August 2012
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...lds-largest-solar-sail-sunjammer.html NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014] by Leonard David of [http://space.com Space.com] goes in depth on
306 B (42 words) - 21:19, 25 February 2013
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... keep the vanes tight. It steers by tilting the vanes, which redirects the solar pressure.
[[Solar Blade]] was a project to design a nanosatellite heliogyro.
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It's been awhile since I posted on news in the world of solar sailing, so here's a list of stories that have come out in the past several
...13. This is one boom and one sail out of four that will make up the flight sail.
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...://www.planetary.org/ The Planetary Society's] [[LightSail|LightSail solar sail cubesat mission]] has posted some recent updates, including a major announc
... fly in May of 2015 in a LEO test before flying LightSail-B high enough to sail in April 2016.
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===What is a solar sail?===
===What pushes a solar sail if space is empty?===
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...ation-schedule-risk Space News reports on the cancellation of NASA's solar sail demonstration mission (Sunjammer)].
328 B (35 words) - 09:51, 19 October 2014
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...elopments in propulsion technology. There is extensive discussion of solar sail technology and missions, including the entire appendix.
529 B (68 words) - 15:13, 27 October 2014
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...upported reflector in low Earth orbit. There is some discussion of a solar sail spacecraft design, including a diagram.
857 B (117 words) - 17:39, 22 October 2014
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...ribing the sail can be found at [http://www.u3p.net U3P], under "The Solar Sail" and "Sails Models".
486 B (73 words) - 14:57, 27 October 2014
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...nologies solar sail program resulting in the ground deployment of two 20-m solar sails in a vacuum chamber. This work is precursory to actual flight valida
990 B (125 words) - 15:13, 27 October 2014
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...nterstellar laser sails. The sequels to Rocheworld also describe the solar sail.
509 B (68 words) - 15:15, 27 October 2014
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...ell as his own continuing work. The book discusses a rich variety of solar sail configurations, applications, and considerations to be taken in their desig
* Uses for a sail at every body in the solar system (and beyond)
1 KB (152 words) - 15:24, 27 October 2014
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...D was a [[wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] mission to deploy a 10 m<sup>2</sup> solar sail from a [[wikipedia:CubeSat|CubeSat]].
...a.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/fastsat/index.html FASTSAT] and deployed the sail on January 20th, 2010, at 10:00pm EST. NanoSail-D2 will remain visible in o
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...orecasting. The Planetary Society previously attempted to test fly a solar sail in the [[Cosmos 1]] mission.
* [http://sail.planetary.org/resources.html LightSail Academic Resources] - schematics, pa
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==Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing==
... will focus on recent advances in solar sailing technologies and near-term solar sailing missions after the success of Japanese IKAROS and American LightSai
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[[File:LGarde20mDemoSail.jpg|thumb|Sunjammer was derived from a 20x20m solar sail ground demo L'Garde and NASA tested in 2005.]]
...tract to [http://www.lgarde.com/ L'Garde] to demonstrate flight of a solar sail for use in science and operational (e.g. space weather, environmental monit
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title = {Solar Reflector Gravity Tractor for Asteroid Collision Avoidance},
title = {Hovering Control of a Solar Sail Gravity Tractor Spacecraft for Asteroid Deflection},
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These links provide a good source of technical literature on solar sails.
...h for [http://www.scientificcommons.org/#search_string=solar%20sail "solar sail"]
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...beSail]] would test a new solar sail design based on long, thin ribbons of sail material with small satellites at the ends to steer them.
== Solar Sail Readies for Early Warning Mission ==
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... shine reflected sunlight at the south pole of the moon with a small solar sail to help find volatiles like water. It has changed to using lasers to illumi
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...which the [[LightSail]] spacecraft will test deployment of the sail. Solar sail flight test will happen on a later flight.
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... the spacecraft. The first test on May 20th, 2015, tests deployment of the sail.
... an outrach campaign to make broad public awareness of the LightSail solar sail and cubesat technology, so it can be put to work in future space missions.
886 B (112 words) - 12:56, 18 May 2015
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...ml The LightSail team is preparing to run the deployment test of the solar sail on Wednesday June 3rd, 2015.] Deployment will be executed manually, and is
613 B (79 words) - 17:52, 7 June 2015
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...e Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft successfully deployed its solar sail.] The link includes instructions on how to view the spacecraft using the [h
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...rth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout)] is a mission to fly a 6-unit Cubesat solar sail spacecraft by an asteroid. It is a joint project between the Jet Propulsion
...asa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160008143 Design and Development of NEA Scout Solar Sail Deployer Mechanism]
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