Sentence examples for sail technology from inspiring English sources

In their place are two massive multihulls with sail technology worthy of the 2010s and two true antagonists in owners Larry Ellison of BMW Oracle Racing and Ernesto Bertarelli of Alinghi.

The H-IIA launch vehicle carried not only Akatsuki but also IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun), a probe that traveled past Venus and tested solar sail technology.

Critics of the kites contend that other projects to reduce emissions could have greater impact and that the sail technology would never work on the largest ships, half-million-ton oil tankers.

For now, using sail technology in commercial shipping remains something of a niche.

In this paper, the current state of the art of solar sail technology is reviewed.

Sail technology is based on projected data from existing development programmes.

Some say the use of elaborate solar-sail technology will be needed, others favour the use of gravitational effects from manipulating orbital bodies.

If the mission, which will cost $4m and has been paid for entirely by private subscription, is successful, Cosmos 1 will become the first craft powered by solar-sail technology to orbit the Earth.Solar sails rely on the fact that particles of light, or photons, that strike a surface give it a tiny push.

Most of the suspects were thought to be planning suicide-bombings in Iraq.See articleCosmos 1, an experimental spacecraft designed to test the use of solar-sail technology, was launched by the Planetary Society, a space advocacy group, and several other interested parties, from a submarine in the Barents Sea.

But after the team owner Larry Ellison and Golden Gate Yacht Club won the Cup in 2010 in a huge multihull with an innovative wing mainsail, Ellison and other members of his team decided to defend the 34th America's Cup in 72-foot catamarans with the same wing-sail technology.

BABBAGE, our sister blog, has published a post on how Team Oracle made use of cutting-edge sailing technology to win the America's Cup.