Sailcraft offer unique opportunities to space-mission planners. Some of these possibilities will be exploited in the near future, others within a few decades, and some in the more distant future. We consider near-term mission possibilities first.
Exploring and Developing Space by Sailcraft
Solar Sails ; Chapter : 9 ; 91-110
2008-01-01
20 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Solar Wind , Solar System , Interplanetary Magnetic Field , Advance Composition Explorer , Solar Sail Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Popular Science, general , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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