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Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
Les Johnson, Nathan Barnes, Matteo Ceriotti +11
Solar sails enable missions to observe the solar environment from unique vantage points, such as sustained observations away from the Sun-Earth line; sub-L1 station keeping; high i…
Exploring the Kuiper Belt with Sun-diving Solar Sails
Elena Ancona, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Gregory L. Matloff
We discuss a possibility to survey many Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) with a single launch using a few smallscale spacecraft, each equipped with solar sails, which could be unfurled fr…
Solar sail propulsion: enabling new capabilities for heliophysics
L. Johnson, R. Young, D. Alhorn +13
Solar sails can play a critical role in enabling solar and heliophysics missions. Solar sail technology within NASA is currently at 80% of TRL-6, suitable for an in-flight technolo…
Microscopic Approach to Analyze Solar-Sail Space-Environment Effects
Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Gregory L. Matloff
Near-sun space-environment effects on metallic thin films solar sails as well as hollow-body sails with inflation fill gas are considered. Analysis of interaction of the solar radi…
The beryllium hollow-body solar sail: exploration of the Sun's gravitational focus and the inner Oort Cloud
Gregory L. Matloff, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Claudio Maccone +1
Spacecraft kinematics, peak perihelion temperature and space environment effects during solar-radiation-pressure acceleration for a beryllium hollow-body interstellar solar sail in…