Exploring

Solar Sails

Robert Miller - Studying Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Physics 212X Spring 2015

Web Project

Topic - Solar Sails

Site was made using Dreamweaver, Muse, Photoshop and 3ds Max.

Resources

- "LightSail." The Planetary Society. Planetary, n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2015.

- Bonsor, Kevin. "How Solar Sails Work." HowStuffWorks. HowStuffWorks.com, 12 Oct. 2010. Web. 5 Apr. 2015. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-sail.htm>.

- Wall, Mike. "Worlds Largest Solar Sail to Launch in November 2014 | Sunjammer Mission | Space.com." Space. Space, 13 June 2013. Web. 8 Apr. 2015. <http://www.space.com/21556-sunjammer-solar-sail-launch-2014.html>.

- NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2015. <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/#.VTLWFiFVhBc>.

- "Solar Sail Stunner - NASA Science." Solar Sail Stunner - NASA Science. NASA, n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/24jan_solarsail/>.

- "Solar Sail." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 9 Apr. 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail>.

- Fox, By Stuart. "How Do Solar Sails Work?" LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 17 May 2010. Web. 2 Apr. 2015. <http://www.livescience.com/32593-how-do-solar-sails-work-.html>.

- Moskowitz, Clara. "Solar Sail Spacecraft to Hitch a Free Ride on a Light Breeze in 2016." Scientific American Global RSS. Scientific America, 16 June 2014. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lightsail-solar-sailing-launch-date/>.

- Atkinson, Nacy. "The Planetary Society's Solar Sail Will Hitch a Ride to Space on a Falcon Heavy." Universe Today. Universe Today, 10 July 2014. Web. 1 Apr. 2015. <http://www.universetoday.com/113116/the-planetary-societys-solar-sail-will-hitch-a-ride-to-space-on-a-falcon-heavy/>.

- "THE PHYSICS OF SOLAR SAILS." THE PHYSICS OF SOLAR SAILS (2002): 1-6. Web. 5 Mar. 2015. <http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030093608.pdf>.

- Shengping, Gong, and Li Junfeng1. "Solar Sail Periodic Orbits in the Elliptic Restricted Three-body Problem." Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy 121.2 (2015): n. pag. UAF Library. Web.

- Khashayar, Parsay, and Schaub Hanspeter. "Designing Solar Sail Formations in Sun-synchronous Orbits for Geomagnetic Tail Exploration." Acta Astronautica 107 (2015): 218-33. Web.