Sun sail system
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A sailing boat uses a sail to use the energy of the wind to move. In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic fields and radiation where he showed that light (one form of electromagnetic radiation) can put pressure on an object to move it. This pressure is called radiation pressure. The idea of a sun sail or solar sail is to use this pressure to move a spacecraft, probably using large mirrors. The disadvantage of the method is that the generated thrust is very small. The benefit is that no propellant is needed (as long as there is light). As a result, it is considered a possible option for future spacecraft. To date, only small test versions have been used as an experiment.
History[edit]
In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic fields and radiation. This showed that light has momentum and can put pressure on an object.[1] This provided a foundation for the science behind the solar sail.
The concept of solar sail was later used science fiction, such as the works of Jules Verne.[2]
Plans for the first use of the concept were made in the 1970s by Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman, two researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Their plan was to land a solar-powered plane to come to Halley's Comet Boo, for some reason, had to discontinue the project.[citation needed]
In 2005, Planet Society also launched a solar sail satellite project jointly with Cosmos Studios and the Russian Academy of Sciences. This was launched from the Russian Borisoglebsk submarine at sea The Volna rocket was designed by removing the warhead of a ballistic missile and modifying it to launch Cosmos 1, but due to a technical fault in the Volna rocket, it fell to the sea after it was 75 kilometers high. With the help of the Nanocell-D micro satellite, it orbited the Earth When the satellite in orbit around the sun Solar Sails mainsail should be able to turn the other directions, or the sun or the candidate can go away from the outer space orbit increased acceleration when Kyrgyzstan nænōsel-D satellite that he could not, so it was destroyed during the Atmosphere.[citation needed]
On May 21, 2010, Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched the solar sail, the IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation Of The Sun).[3]
In 2010, NASA launched the solar sail craft NANOSEL-D2. The was the first success of NASA's solar sail craft.[4]
In 2019 the Planet Society, based in the United States, launched the LightSail 2 satellite, designed using solar sail technology.[5] The lightweight satellite, was launched with the SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Maxwell, James Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008.
- ↑ Verne, Jules (1865). From the Earth to the Moon. ISBN 978-0486469645. Search this book on
- ↑ "Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17(H-IIA F17)". JAXA.
- ↑ Krebs, Gunter. "NanoSail D". Gunter's Space Page.
- ↑ Salazar, Doris Elin. "LightSail 2 Sends Back 1st Signals from Its Solar-Surfing Test Flight". Space.com. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ↑ Glaser, April (25 June 2019). "SpaceX Just Launched Something Really Cool Into Space". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
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