Space Sailing offers a clear, concise and fascinating insight into the concepts behind solar sails, covering all aspects of the technology, from the basic principles of the solar sail to proposed trajectories for trips into various planetary orbits. Large sections of the book are nontechnical, making the reading informative to the layperson as well as those involved in space research. No other form of space transportation has the potential to operate at such low cost, making space sailing an attractive alternative to other forms of space travel. This well-illustrated book includes a description of the range of applications for space sailing ships and analyzes their economic importance.
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A century from now when we hope sailing ships are carrying cargos to and from the planets of our solar system, Jerome Wright will be remembered as one of the pioneers of the solar sailing technique...It (the book) is complete but not too technical and thus us available to the interested laymen as well as to the space scientist or engineer..
–Louis Friedman of the Planetary Society
–Louis Friedman of the Planetary Society
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Excellent introduction to solar sails,
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"Space Sailing" by Wirght is an excellent introduction to the concept of solar sails. The first two chapters introduce the concept of space sailing and provides examples of possible uses. Later chapters go into more details on ship design, sail materials and construction, ship deployment issues, and ship control mechanisms. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in space sails.
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solar sailing ships, sail loading, disk sail, sail film, sail vehicle, remote lens, robotic ships, sail temperature, sail elements, solar pressure, characteristic acceleration, sail panels, reflector aluminum, sail system, edge tendons, departure speed, life support supplies, arrival speed, rendezvous mission, individual sails, total force vector, yaw torques, interplanetary ships, back reflector, chemical propulsion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Halley Rendezvous, Alpha Centauri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, High Performance Solar Sail System, Halley's Comet, Journal of Spacecraft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York, Twenty-First Century New!
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Stars are immense thermal engines driven by nuclear reactions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solar sailing ships, sail loading, disk sail, sail film, sail vehicle, remote lens, robotic ships, sail temperature, sail elements, solar pressure, characteristic acceleration, sail panels, reflector aluminum, sail system, edge tendons, departure speed, life support supplies, arrival speed, rendezvous mission, individual sails, total force vector, yaw torques, interplanetary ships, back reflector, chemical propulsion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Halley Rendezvous, Alpha Centauri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, High Performance Solar Sail System, Halley's Comet, Journal of Spacecraft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York, Twenty-First Century New!
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- Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press in Back Matter
- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project on page 123
- Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences) by Colin R. McInnes on page 31, and page 55
- Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond (Springer Praxis Books / Astronautical Engineering) by Gregory L. Matloff on page 60, and Back Matter
- Space, the Final Frontier? by Giancarlo Genta on page 153, and page 238
- Deep-Space Probes (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Greogory L. Matloff on page 56
- The Space Transportation Market: Evolution or Revolution? (Space Studies, Volume 5) by Michael J. Rycroft on page 317
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