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In 2012, it was still under thrust, proving the practicality of asolarsailfor long-duration missions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To further focus the energy on a distantsolarsail, designs have considered the use of a large zone plate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Itssolarsailhas an area of 10 m2, and was deployed in around five seconds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This leads to applications such as thesolarsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Solarsailcraft can approach the sun to deliver observation payloads or to take up station keeping orbits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Solarsailcraft offer the possibility of low-cost operations combined with long operating lifetimes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The material is over 200 times thicker than conventionalsolarsaildesigns, but it is so porous that it has the same mass.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is currently one of the leading figures in the field, being the author (or co-author) of over 50solarsailpapers since 2001.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One example of this would be using asolarsailto reflect a laser beam.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Parachutes have very low mass, but a parachute is not a workable configuration for asolarsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lightsail is a series of threesolarsailexperiments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Typically, a statite would use thesolarsailto hover in a location that would not otherwise be available as a stable geosynchronous orbit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At that time, it had gained approximately 400 m/s of velocity from itssolarsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This differs from asolarsail, where tilting the sail to the sunlight can produce a sideways thrust for steering.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The idea behind thesolarsailis that the laser provides a small force on the sail when the sail reflects the light.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such asolarsailcolony would be free to ride solar radiation pressure and travel off the ecliptic plane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An active geosynchronous orbit is a hypothetical orbit that could be maintained if forces other than gravity were also used, such as asolarsail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One proposal is to use a craft powered by asolarsailthat would take around 30 years to reach its destination.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the principle behind thesolarsail, which uses light radiation pressure to move through space.
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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.