Solar sails are of great promise for space exploration, affording missions that push the limits
of the possible. They enable a variety of novel science missions ranging from ultrafast …

A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel Page 1 Giovanni Vulpetti Les Johnson Gregory L.
Matloff A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel Second Edition Page 2 Solar Sails A Novel …

Refractive and diffractive solar sails have been cited to yield benefits in both performance
and utility over reflective sails, but their range of viable flight regimes and future applications …

In the framework of a strict mathematical approach based on classical theory of elasticity we
present an idea of the deployment and stretching of the circular solar sail attached to the …

A solar sail presents a flat low areal density membrane and is an example of propellant-less
propulsion system for the future space exploration. To date, the study of sail membrane …

The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should
allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket …

The construction of a solar sail from commercially available metallized film presents several
challenges. The solar sail membrane is made by seaming together precut lengths of …

Theoretical aspects of a solar sail material degradation are presented when the solar
electromagnetic and corpuscular forms of radiation were considered as sources of …

The minimum foil thickness that provides the maximum reflectivity and absorption for a solar
sail material is found and its dependence on temperature and on wavelength of the …

Detailed dynamic modeling of a solar sail requires recording of solar radiation pressure
influence. A photon-solar sail is determined by the thrust value and the direction. We define …