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In typicalmagneticsaildesigns, the magnetic field is generated by a loop of superconducting wire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a simplified, very low-budgetmagneticsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the speed of amagneticsailincreases, its acceleration becomes more dependent on its ability to tack efficiently.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, this requires themagneticsailto be maintained in its unstable orientation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A common misconception is that amagneticsailcan not exceed the speed of the plasma pushing it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus, in interstellar spaceflight outside the heliopause of a star amagneticsailcould act as a parachute to decelerate a spacecraft.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The range of maneuvers available to amagneticsailinside a planetary magnetosphere are more limited than in a plasma wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By varying the magnetic sail's field strength over the course of its orbit, amagneticsailcan give itself a perigee kick raising the altitude of its orbit's apogee.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, amagneticsailmust deflect a proportionally larger area of the solar wind than a comparable solar sail to generate the same amount of thrust.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This means that magnetic sails could maneuver to most orbits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Magnetic sails could also be used with beam-powered propulsion by using a high-power particle accelerator to fire a beam of charged particles at the spacecraft.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Magnetic sails bend the path of the charged protons that are in the solar wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another method of artificially influencing an orbit is through the use of solar sails or magnetic sails.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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