Wednesday, May 14, 2008

News: Scientist Sells the Electric Sail for Space Propulsion

IEEE Spectrum has an article mentioning: "... streaming from the sun. The electric sail is similar in some ways to the more conventional solar-sail idea. The solar sail requires a ultrathin aluminized Mylar sail 250 meters in diameter to catch the solar wind, which blows out ..."

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