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astro-ph.IM2023
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…
astro-ph.IM2018★ 16 cited
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…