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Episode 540: Planetary Society Deploys LightSail 2’s Solar Sail. What Does The Future Hold For Solar Sails?
Where you can travel in space depends on how much propellant you’ve got on board your rocket and how efficiently you can use it. But there’s a source of free propellant right here in the Solar System - the Sun - which is streaming out photons in all directions. You just need to catch them.
And right now, the Planetary Society’s new LightSail 2 spacecraft is testing out just how well it’ll work.
Light Sail 2 Photos:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-team-continues-tweaks-tests.html
Episode on Breakthrough Starshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWcEtXgK2g&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=146
Episode on Project Dragonfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598UtgxFd1E&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=23
Audio Podcast version:
ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2
RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio
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References:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-speed-a-chemical-rocket-can-achieve
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-has-launched.html
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-team-continues-tweaks-tests.html
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2014-4435
https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1406.pdf
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/20170925-solar-sail-dsg.html
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Where you can travel in space depends on how much propellant you’ve got on board your rocket and how efficiently you can use it. But there’s a source of free propellant right here in the Solar System - the Sun - which is streaming out photons in all directions. You just need to catch them.
And right now, the Planetary Society’s new LightSail 2 spacecraft is testing out just how well it’ll work.
Light Sail 2 Photos:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-team-continues-tweaks-tests.html
Episode on Breakthrough Starshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWcEtXgK2g&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=146
Episode on Project Dragonfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598UtgxFd1E&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v&index=23
Audio Podcast version:
ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2
RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio
What Fraser's Watching Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G
Weekly email newsletter:
https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter
Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday
More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain
Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday
Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday
Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected]
Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw
Chad Weber - [email protected]
References:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-speed-a-chemical-rocket-can-achieve
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-has-launched.html
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-team-continues-tweaks-tests.html
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2014-4435
https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1406.pdf
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/20170925-solar-sail-dsg.html
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