Plasma Magnets Using Dynamic Soaring to Go 2% of Speed of Light
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#66DV4)
A number of concepts exist for exploiting the solar wind as a means of propulsion: the MagSail, the e-sail, and the plasma magnet. All of these concepts work predominately as drag devices and thus are limited to velocities equal to the solar wind (~700 km/s), with only limited ability to generate force transverse to the ...