Sentence examples for sail mission from inspiring English sources

Strands of hair belonging to the late sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke are set to be launched into space next year on NASA's first-ever "solar sail mission".

The paper describes the development and simulation results of a full ADCS subsystem for the deOrbitSail drag sail mission.

CubeSail is a nano-solar sail mission based on the 3U CubeSat standard, which is currently being designed and built at the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey.

This paper describes a semi-analytical approach to electric sail mission analysis under the assumption that the spacecraft experiences a purely radial, outward, propulsive acceleration.

TOKYO Success is paying off for Japan's IKAROS solar sail mission: The team behind the spacecraft confirmed today that it flawlessly completed all the performance tests set for it during its planned 6-month life.

Separately, NASA on 21 January announced that its solar sail mission, NanoSail-D, once thought lost due to a malfunction, successfully deployed its sail and is working as planned.

(Two previous solar sail missions by other countries foundered on rocket failures).

Solar sail missions have been proposed to investigate the outer heliosphere and our galactic neighborhood.

They intend to model the sail's behavior and the craft's response to plan future solar sail missions.

In addition, computation modeling and analytical simulations have been performed to assess the scalability of the technology to the large sizes (>150 m) required for first generation solar sail missions.

A fascinating, meticulous account of an immense (six ships, 346 men) project intended to produce charts for American whalers; the last all-sail mission to circumnavigate the globe, it logged 87,000 miles in four years but lost recognition when Americans took to expanding westward on the ground.