It is shown that commercially available metallized plastic film can be used as solar radiation pressure sail for propulsion of space vehicles within solar systems; method of propulsion is of negligible cost and is perhaps more powerful than many competing schemes.
Solar sailing -- Practical method of propulsion within solar system
Jet Propulsion
Jet Propulsion ; 28 , n 3
1958
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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