Surfing a Space Telescope on the Solar Wind to Survey Earth Like Worlds
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#68D4S)
The solar wind can push against a drag device, called a Wind Rider, for fast trip times across the solar system. A small spacecraft can go from Earth orbit to more than 500 times that distance from the sun in about 7 years. It would take the Voyager probes about 25 times longer to reach ...