#sunjammer

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Mike Oldfield - Sunjammer

Testing Sunjammer Solar sail, it is a term defined by science fiction short story “Sunjammer” whose writer is Arthur C. Clarke in his 1964. In his story, he named Sunjammer is a method of powering small spacecraft without the use of an expensive propellant. It is a method for the propellant-free population and is quickly carving out space in the future of spaceflight. For testing a new type of solar sail system NASA has teamed up with NanoAvionics which run the mission by NASA’s Ames Research Center called Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) in Silicon Valley. It is a small satellite move to low Earth orbit with a solar sail that unfolds around 800 square feet. The mission ASC3 will work to replace rocket propellants by developing and testing newly designed solar sails by using sunlight beams to give the nanosatellite velocity. NASA is an old technology, has thrown a solar test before in the year 2011. It is the second attempt of a flight test called Sunjammer that was canceled in 2014. The Planetary Society of Non-profit scientific organizations flew its own crowd-funded solar spacecraft last year. The NanoAvinic’s who have designed and constructed a 12U bus at its Columbia and according to research news Testing Sunjammer Solar Sail NASA. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is also participating in the project. A Solar Sail is basically just like a sailing ship from the old clipper ships. You see in the movies but instead of the physical wind, a solar sail in space is a sail that reflects sunlight. People don’t realize as the light reflects from you it’s actually pushing on you and that’s because light doesn’t have rest mass but it does have momentum. When demonstrated, sun based sail innovation could empower a large group of adaptable space missions. Including flying a propelled space climate cautioning framework to all the more rapidly and precisely ready satellite administrators and utilities on Earth of geomagnetic storms brought about by coronal mass discharges from the sun. The innovation additionally could help expel a portion of the in excess of 8,000 bits of orbital dispatch refuse and jetsam ringing the planet. Lead station-keeping activities, or float at high scopes above Earth for correspondences and perception; and drive an assortment of fuels, profound space investigation, and gracefully shipping missions. They give a slight push to it. If you stick a light enough and big enough metallic sail near the sun, away from Earth’s gravity it’s going to move. The object gets closer to the sun, it gets a lot more push from a sail and if the object cut the distance in half, it will go half away toward the sun from the earth. From the initial push, the object moves faster than a rocket. The fact that light pushes objects has been known for quite some time but the fact that it could be used for propelling a spacecraft. It discovered until the Marine missions which were a bunch of probes in the 60s. F Brent Abbott CEO of NanoAvionics North America said: “I’m very happy & excited that NanoAvionics will be a part of Nasa’s effort. Eventually leading to more marvelous deep-space missions following the first interplanetary CubeSats Marco-A and B (Mars Cube One). The solar sail teamed up with NanoAvionics will build. Its system at new Columbia in Illinois with the final integration to be done under Nasa Ames facilities. Read the full article

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