Overview
- The first comprehensive account of solar sailing
- Ideal as an introduction, but treats the subject at a high technical level
- Emphasis on solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure
- Solar sailing represents one of the few possibilities for travel to the nearby stars in a lifetime!
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences (ASTRONOMY)
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Solar sailing offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions, impossible for any other type of conventional spacecraft. The book provides a detailed account of solar sailing, at a high technical level but in a way accessible to the scientifically informed layman. Solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure form the foundations of the book, but the engineering design of solar sails is also considered, along with potential mission applications. This book introduces the subject and at the same time provides a technical reference source.
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Book Title: Solar Sailing
Book Subtitle: Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications
Authors: Colin Robert McInnes
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3992-8
Publisher: Springer London
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3992-8Published: 27 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-7475
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 296
Number of Illustrations: 115 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles