According to researchers at a NASA concept mission known as the Interstellar Probe, a craft equipped with a 400-meter wide sail could travel about 2.1 billion kilometers per year and could escape the Sun’s sphere of influence (SOI)– a sphere where the Sun dominates from a gravitational perspective– in just over a decade.
Format Häftad (Paperback) Språk Engelska Antal sidor 272 Utgivningsdatum 1992-04-01 Upplaga illustrated ed Förlag Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd Illustrationer index ISBN 9782881248429 Du kanske gillar The author examines the concept of using light as a means of propulsion for ships employing photonic engines, and provides an account of work on space sailing carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena in the 1970s. He also looks at the aborted Halley Rendezvous mission. Visa hela texten "'A century from now when we hope sailing ships are carrying cargos to and from the planets of our solar system, Jerome Wright will be remembered as one of the pioneers of the solar sailing technique...It (the book) is complete but not too technical and thus us available to the interested laymen as well as to the space scientist or engineer.'."-Louis Friedman of the Planetary Society Part 1 Introduction to sailing: the principles of space sailing; solar sailing; light-beam sailing; the interplanetary clipper; economic comparisons. Part 2 To distant shores: mission design; trajectory characteristics; sailing in earth-moon space; the inner planets; voyages to mars; the outer planets; the samll bodies; sailing in solar space; deep space; interstellar voyages. Part 3 Sailing ship design: design considerations; sizing the sail; configuration selection; design principles; the square-rigged clipper ship; the quadsailer; the trisailer; the butterfly sailer; the ribbed sailer; the ring sailer; the disk sailer; the lattice ship; the heliogyro interstellar sailing ships; comparison of designs. part 4 Sailmaking: sail design factors; materials; sail fabrication; packing and stowage; thermal design; dimensional stability; perforations and electrical connections; environmental effects; mass properties. Part 5 Sailing ship construction: ground-based construction; the square-rigged clipper ship; the wrapped-rib sailer; the disk sailer; the heliogyrop space-based construction; the lattice ship. Part 6 Sailing operations: attitude control of sailing ships; planetary operations; rendezvous and docking operations; interplanetary operations; interstellar and other high-energy operations. Part 7 Beamed power systems: the principles of beamed power; interplanetary laser systems; interstellar laser systems; ship design; ship operations; microwave systems. Part 8 Scenarios of the future: sailing near home; cities on Mars; development of a comet of asteroid; development of Mercury; settlement at alpha centauri.
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