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  • 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
  • Cosmos 1 (1)
    dir.yahoo.com/.../Solar_Sails/Cosmos_1
  • 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
  • Breakthrough in Solar Sail Technology
    SPACE.com article about the new carbon-fiber material that is causing a revolution in the way scientists are thinking about laser and solar sails.
    www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/carbonsail_000302.html
  • 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
  • Planetary Society: Solar Sailing
    Information about the Planetary Society's Solar Sailing project with spacecraft Cosmos 2. Find new project developments, press, and articles related to space travel.
    www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20080623.html
  • Solar Sail Homepage
    Provides information on spacecraft that utilize the momentum transfer of solar photons onto large, highly reflecting sails for passive propulsion.
    www.kp.dlr.de/SolarSail/Welcome.html
  • 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
  • Technology Planning Workshop for Space Technology 9 (ST9)
    Exploring topics such as solar sails, system technology for large space telescopes, and aerocapture system technology for planetary missions. Sponsored by NASA's New Millennium Program.
    nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st9/index.html
  • LightSail - The Future of Solar Sailing
    Learn about The Planetary Society's three-mission project -- called LightSail -- that will launch three separate solar sail spacecraft over the course of several years.
    www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/multimission_project.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
 



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