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Description: Space sailing technology, trajectories, and general information on solar sailing ships.
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© 2001-2007 Jerome L. Wright
Order Space Sailing at Amazon.com. Click on title for order information (new window). 258 pages. Contents: Introduction to Sailing, To Distant Shores, Sailing Ship Design, Sailmaking, Sailing Ship Construction, Sailing Operations, Beamed Power Systems, Scenarios of the Future, Solar Pressure, Forces and Moments, Trajectory Analysis, Heliogyro Dynamics. Introduction Space sailing and light sailing are the general terms for sailing in space using large reflectors for propulsion. Solar sailing is based on the
Applications for solar sails include:
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