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.


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    Title :

    Solar sailing -- Practical method of propulsion within solar system


    Additional title:

    Jet Propulsion


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Jet Propulsion ; 28 , n 3


    Publication date :

    1958


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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