solar sail

Except once you get beyond a certain size, solar sails are all different.

Your class might find it interesting to explore the idea of a solar sail.

That close to the sun, solar sails work efficiently, you see.

A critical technology for the mission is a large 1 g/m solar sail.

Nevertheless, the benefits from using a solar sail would be enormous.

Forward proposed the system as an "add on" to existing solar sails.

Mechanically it has little in common with the traditional solar sail design.

She'll'even be back in time for the solar sail's first full test.

LightSail-1's goal is to test if solar sails are a viable form of space transport.

She might have spied it, too, as a star that moved among stars, by the solar sail.

Solar sails and wormholes may provide man with a key to the stars.

This is the principle behind the solar sail, which uses light radiation pressure to move through space.

As we saw, each panel of the solar sails is independently controlled.

High Council had left it in working order, powered by a nest of solar sails.

Solar sails will use the sun's energy to propel spacecraft.

This is exactly how the solar sails and photons interact.

One example of this would be using a solar sail to reflect a laser beam.

It was the solar sail which filled most of the screen, like a .

This leads to applications such as the solar sail.

Until 2010, no solar sails had been successfully used in space as primary propulsion systems.

Solar sail designing including a list of control options.

Now he'd lost two solar sails, and his pilot to an oilfish school, for nothing.

A buuthandi is a balloon of solar sail material around a star.

To further focus the energy on a distant solar sail, designs have considered the use of a large zone plate.

Maybe he could beg replacements for his torn solar sails, too.