Fast Solar Sailing: Astrodynamics of Special Sailcraft Trajectories

by Giovanni Vulpetti

Book Overview

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 propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric. Fast and very fast solar sailings are special classes of sailcraft missions, initially developed only in the first half of the 1990s and still evolving, especially after the latest advances in nanotechnology.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401781966
• ISBN13: 9789401781961
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"