Solar Sails

2009-03-05 Technology & Engineering

Author : Giovanni Vulpetti
Release : 2009-03-05
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Solar Sails by : Giovanni Vulpetti

Download or read book Solar Sails written by Giovanni Vulpetti. This book was released on 2009-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solar sail technology is very close to becoming an engineering reality and it will soon be used in the exploration of the solar system and beyond. This fascinating book provides an accessible introduction to solar sails and details how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space. It also examines current plans for solar sails and how advanced technology, such as nanotechnology, might enhance their performance. Coverage shows how solar sail propulsion will make space exploration more affordable and demonstrates how access to destinations within (and beyond) the solar system will become within reach.

Solar Sailing

2013-11-27 Science

Author : Colin R. McInnes
Release : 2013-11-27
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Solar Sailing by : Colin R. McInnes

Download or read book Solar Sailing written by Colin R. McInnes. This book was released on 2013-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solar sailing - using the sun as a propellant - offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions that are impossible with conventional spacecraft. This first comprehensive book on this propulsion method provides a detailed account of solar sailing, at a high technical level, but in a way accessible to the scientifically informed layperson. Solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure form the foundations of the book, but the engineering design of solar sails is also considered, along with potential mission applications.

Fast Solar Sailing

2012-08-10 Technology & Engineering

Author : Giovanni Vulpetti
Release : 2012-08-10
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Fast Solar Sailing by : Giovanni Vulpetti

Download or read book Fast Solar Sailing written by Giovanni Vulpetti. This book was released on 2012-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric. Fast and very fast solar sailings are special classes of sailcraft missions, initially developed only in the first half of the 1990s and still evolving, especially after the latest advances in nanotechnology. This book describes how to plan, compute and optimize the trajectories of sailcraft with speeds considerably higher than 100 km/s; such sailcraft would be able to explore the outer heliosphere, the near interstellar medium and the solar gravitational lens (550-800 astronomical units) in times significantly shorter than the span of an average career (~ 35 years), just to cite a few examples. The scientific interest in this type of exploration is huge.

Starsailing

1988-01-18 Science

Author : Louis Friedman
Release : 1988-01-18
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Starsailing written by Louis Friedman. This book was released on 1988-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Friedman, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, presents the first comprehensive look at the science and history behind solar sailing and other designs for space travel. Serious science readers and space buffs alike will be fascinated by designs for the square sail, disk sail, and the heliogyro (which features flexible sails many kilometers long). Friedman compares solar sailing to other proposed propulsion sytems such as ion drives and laser propulsion, and takes an insider's look at the million-dollar JPL project of the late '70s, which was the first attempt at a working model. Illustrated.

Space Sailing

1992 Science

Author : Jerome L. Wright
Release : 1992
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Space Sailing written by Jerome L. Wright. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wright was one of the first to introduce the concept of propulsion using light pressure. He reports on his continuing work, mostly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, for scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts with little technical background. The first space sailors are probably in junior high now. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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