Continuing our mini-theme of new technologies in space travel, read this New York Times Science article on Solar Sails. Hope you enjoy!
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Showing posts with label solar sails. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2009
Friday, August 1, 2008
Solar Sails
On the July 2nd radio show, I briefly mentioned that NASA was developing a prototype solar sail - a space craft which uses sunlight and the solar wind, the fast-moving flow of charged particles generated in the Sun's corona responsible for aurorae and satellite outages, and not propellants to move. Well, work is continuing on those prototypes, as you can read in this NASA Science article.
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