- Solar Sails
Contains information on solar sails, spacecraft that are pushed through space by sunlight, using very large and lightweight mirrors.
www.solarsails.info
- U3P Solar Sails
Provides information on solar sails and their design and propulsion in six languages.
www.u3p.net
- Interstellar Probe: Exploring the Interstellar Medium and the Boundaries of the Heliosphere
Project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory which would use a solar sail spacecraft.
interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov
- Setting Sail for the Stars
Science@NASA article about the latest developments in solar sail technology, which could carry a spacecraft beyond the edge of the solar system by 2018.
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast28jun_1m.htm
- HowStuffWorks: How Solar Sails Work
Looks at how solar sails work, takes an in-depth look at the Cosmos-1 mission, and finds out what solar-sails mean for future space travel.
www.howstuffworks.com/solarsail.htm
- Solar Blade Solar Sail Project
Information about the spacecraft that utilizes reflected solar pressure as its only means of propulsion and attitude control.
www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/blade/index2.html
- SolarSailWiki
Contains information on solar sailing, an old idea but a new technology for moving around and doing things in space.
wiki.solarsails.info
- NanoSail-D (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Solar_Sails/NanoSail_D
- Cosmos 1
dir.yahoo.com/.../Solar_Sails/Cosmos_1
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