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astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited
Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats
Slava G. Turyshev, Darren Garber, Louis D. Friedman +25
Recently, we witnessed how the synergy of small satellite technology and solar sailing propulsion enables new missions. Together, small satellites with lightweight instruments and…
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…