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Solar Energy
The most important feature of the Sun is its enormous energy, which is vital for all living beings on this planet. And now, more than ever, for its...
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Payload and sail loading dependence study of design sensitivity function and characteristic acceleration of solar sail
In this paper, we have investigated the dependence of characteristic acceleration and design sensitivity function of solar sail on mass and area of...
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Five Solar Cycles of Solar Corona Investigations
These are the memoirs of fifty years of research in solar physics, closely related to the history of three of the major solar space missions, from...
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Formation of Sources for Solar Cosmic Rays in Eruptive Flares X6.9 and M5.1 Observed August 9, 2011, and May 17, 2012
AbstractA coronal mass ejection (CME) and solar proton event (SPE) succeeding weak flares in soft X-rays and being observed in the interplanetary...
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The Solar Energy Converters
Solar energy, which comes to us as light and heat, can be converted into other forms of energy in many ways. Humans discovered this about a million...
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Earth=Asteroid belt: the impact of uneasy relationships during the great solar system cleanup
Planetary origin theories; the early solar nebula; carbonaceous chondrites; accretion and feeding zones; differentiation and...
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Foresail-2: Space Physics Mission in a Challenging Environment
Earth’s radiation belts are extremely important for space weather because they can store and accelerate particles to relativistic energies, which can...
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Confirmed and Proposed Missions to the Ocean Worlds
After reviewing in detail the confirmed and suspected ocean worlds of our Solar System in the previous chapters, we finish the book by looking at the...
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Review of Solar Magnetic Sailing Configurations for Space Travel
A solar magnetic sailing spacecraft utilizes the interaction between solar wind and magnetic field that is generated by a loop of superconducting...
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Determine Where We Are
Earth is the third of the eight planets in the solar system, in order of distance from the Sun. Mercury and Venus are inner planets, while Mars,...
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A Stellar View of the Sun
This invited memoir looks back on my scientific career that straddles the solar and stellar branches of astrophysics, with sprinklings of historical...
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It Takes a Village
My parents taught me the value of a good education. My studies at the state universities of Michigan and Colorado and postgraduate studies at the...
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A fast response mission to rendezvous with an interstellar object
A solar sail propelled small satellite mission concept to intercept and potentially rendezvous with newly discovered transient interstellar objects...
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Chance of Three Lifetimes
Sailing through an uncharted ocean of emptiness, more than 11.9 billion miles (19.1 billion kilometres) from its planet of origin, the Voyager 2...
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Photons
Physics seemed to largely solved by the end of the 1800s, of which a crowning achievement was that light had been conclusively shown to be an...
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The Age of Enlightenment
Hard on the heels of the Renaissance came the Enlightenment, a triumph of reason and empirical methods. There were three characteristic philosophies:...
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The River of Stars
This sector is dominated by the constellation Eridanus, and the mythological origins of this cosmic river of stars are outlined. In this...
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Aerostat Probe for Studying the Atmosphere and Surface of Venus
AbstractBased on the successful landings of landing modules (LM) on the surface and the introduction of aerostat probes (AP) into the air, the...
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Surrogate Earths: making homes away from home
Planetary explorers past, present and future; living off the land; ocean and ice moons as habitats; getting there; creating...
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The Purpose-Like Nature of Life
According to Jeffrey Tze-Fei Wong (2002): A living system is one capable of...