NASA Super Light Solar Sail Project Will Be 12-40 Times Lighter and Faster
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#78BAD)
NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration-potentially up to 2 mm/s^2-and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m^2, to support future ultra-high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the ...