High Speed AB-Solar Sail
Abstract
The Solar sail is a large thin film used to collect solar light pressure for moving of space apparatus. Unfortunately, the solar radiation pressure is very small about 9 mkN/sq.m at Earth's orbit. However, the light force significantly increases up to 0.2 - 0.35 N/sq.m near the Sun. The author offers his research on a new revolutionary highly reflective solar sail which flyby (after special maneuver) near Sun and attains velocity up to 400 km/sec and reaching far planets of the Solar system in short time or enable flights out of Solar system. New, highly reflective sail-mirror allows avoiding the strong heating of the solar sail. It may be useful for probes close to the Sun and Mercury and Venus. Key words: AB-solar sail, highly reflective solar sail, high speed propulsion.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0701073,
title = {High Speed AB-Solar Sail},
author = {A. Bolonkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0701073},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 7 figures