Demonstration of a 20-m Solar Sail System
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The NASA In-Space Propulsion (ISP) program has been sponsoring system design development and hardware demonstration activities of solar sail technology over the past 27 months. Validation of a 10-m system solar sail system is complete, and efforts to demonstrate and evaluate a 20-m system are underway. Descriptions of the evolution of the design, results of functional testing to date, and analytical model predictions for upcoming shape and dynamic testing are reviewed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005