Sentence examples for sailing spacecraft from inspiring English sources

It is not exactly the Enterprise, but Sunjammer will be boldly going where no solar sailing spacecraft has gone before," Popular Science says.

You may remember the test flight of Lightsail, a prototype solar sailing spacecraft that launched in 2015.

{The Los Angeles Times] On a mission dubbed Sunjammer after the short story by Arthur C. Clarke, NASA plans to launch the largest "solar sail" spacecraft ever next year.

Over the next three years, the society will build and fly a series of solar-sail spacecraft dubbed LightSails, first in orbit around the Earth and eventually into deeper space.

Solar sail spacecraft usually consist of a traditional spacecraft bus on which the chemical/electrical propulsion module is replaced by a sail.

In this report we describe a solar sail spacecraft where the functions of the spacecraft bus are completely integrated in a multifunctional membrane.

We fabricated a double-pancake coil using a Bi-2223/Ag Bi-2223/Aga lengtapef 200 m as a scale-dowithodel for a magnetic sailengthecraft.

The present study contributes to the characterization of HTS coils and design of a coil system for the magnetic sail spacecraft.

The code that has been developed can take into account the effects of the thermal expansion of the sail and of the spacecraft acceleration and can be adapted to solar sail spacecraft with different geometrical configurations.

In this paper, novel families of highly non-Keplerian orbits for solar sail spacecraft at linear order are investigated in the Earth Moon circular restricted three-body problem, where the third body is a solar sail.

This paper investigates the problem of multiple solar sail-based spacecraft formation flying in which the chief follows a heliocentric displaced orbit, whereas each deputy adjusts the sail propulsive acceleration so as to track a desired (relative) trajectory with respect to the chief.