Sentence examples for sail in space from inspiring English sources

Setting Sail in Space: A new solar sail, the largest yet, will be launched by NASA in 2014.

In contrast to the earlier series, many of Tom Jr.'s inventions are designed to operate in space, and his "genius is unequivocally original as he constructs nuclear-powered flying labs, establishes outposts in space, or designs ways to sail in space on cosmic rays".

Electrochromic devices have been used for the attitude control of a spinning solar sail in a deep space mission by modulating the reflectivity of the sail membrane.

But this week it became science fact as Japan's IKAROS spacecraft successfully spread its solar sail the first time such a sail has been deployed in space.

The tiny satellite will unfurl four solar-powered Mylar sails after a month in space, for a first short test of solar sailing near Earth.

Conventional in-space photonic propulsion systems like solar sails or solar photon thrusters operate by reflection of EM waves.

Once in space, they will unfurl lightweight sails to catch laser beams shot from Earth, accelerating to one-fifth the speed of light under light pressure.

Due to advantages of lightweightness, multifunctionality and adaptability via control design, and the capacity of deployment inherited from tensegrity systems, tensegrity-membrane systems can be utilized in space applications such as solar sails and radar antennas.

For epic interstellar journeys, he envisioned a rocketless vehicle that would be manufactured in space and equipped with an ultrathin sail as big as Texas.

There are still signs of promise, but the AR/VR hype correction of 2017 took the wind out of a lot of sails in the AR/VR space, while Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are the ones with pockets deep enough to see what's left.

The article addresses engineering activities on a key item of innovative solar sail propulsion technologies: lightweight deployable booms to enfold huge membrane structures in space.