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• NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014
  ...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
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• Solar sail news roundup for October 3, 2013
  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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• Project Solar Sail
  A collection of essays and short stories about solar sails. This book was part of a fund-raising effort for the World Space Foun
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• Main Page
  [[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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• Sandbox
  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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• Web Links
  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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• IKAROS
  [[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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• CzCube
  ...he [[wikipedia:Czech Republic|Czech Republic]], possibly featuring a solar sail.
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• File:--File-PaperISSS2010V7.doc ...ration by “Roller-Reefing” - a design paper - of a demonstrator solar sail power station spacecraft (SSPS). (7 MB) - 16:35, 20 June 2012

• File:LGarde20mDemoSail.jpg 20x20m ground demonstration solar sail built by L'Garde for a NASA technology development program. (720 × 469 (64 KB)) - 11:34, 22 August 2012

• Category:Design
  [[File:Clipper2.jpg|thumb|Square clipper sail designed by [[Jerome L. Wright]].]] ...wn to is a small, heavy mass attached to the middle of a huge, lightweight sail.
  4 members (1 subcategory, 1 file) - 11:45, 22 August 2012
• Jerome L. Wright
  ...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/
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• NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014
  ...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

• File:Heliogyr.jpg Halley Rendezvous heliogyro solar sail. Spinning sail with long, thin blades. The blades are tilted like those of a helicopter to (640 × 480 (79 KB)) - 14:06, 28 September 2013

• File:Circular.jpg A circular solar sail. Spin tensions the sail, and panels are periodically shifted to induce control torques. Created 199 (640 × 480 (76 KB)) - 14:10, 28 September 2013

• File:Heliogyro.png Halley Rendezvous heliogyro solar sail. Spinning sail with long, thin blades. The blades are tilted like those of a helicopter to (1,280 × 1,024 (554 KB)) - 17:37, 28 September 2013

• Heliogyro
  ... 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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• Solar sail news roundup for October 3, 2013
  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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• Category:Attitude Control
  ... [[IKAROS]] uses electronic reflective control devices on the edges of the sail. [[LightSail]] will use a reaction wheel and magnetic torque rods. [[Sunjam
  4 members (0 subcategories, 1 file) - 11:41, 18 November 2014
• LightSail updates July 7, 2014
  ...://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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• Frequently Asked Questions
  ===What is a solar sail?=== ===What pushes a solar sail if space is empty?===
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• NASA Nixes Sunjammer Mission, Cites Integration, Schedule Risk
  ...ation-schedule-risk Space News reports on the cancellation of NASA's solar sail demonstration mission (Sunjammer)].
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• Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond
  ...elopments in propulsion technology. There is extensive discussion of solar sail technology and missions, including the entire appendix.
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