New Concept of High Speed AB Solar Sail

被引：3

作者：

Bolonkin, Alexander ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] C&R Aerosp, Brooklyn, NY 11229 USA

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS | 2008年 / 44卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1109/TAES.2008.4667728

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

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 mu N/mm at Earth's orbit. However, the light force significantly increases up to 0.2-0.35 N/mm near the Sun. The author offers his research on a new revolutionary highly reflective solar sail which performs a flyby (after special maneuver) near the Sun and attains velocities up to 400 km/s and reaches far planets of the Solar system in a short time or enables flights out of the 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.

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页码：1538 / 1542

页数：5