Electric sail
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electric-sail-210-3682081
title:
Electric sail
text:
An electric sail is a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the solar wind as a source of thrust. It creates a "virtual" sail by using small wires to form an electric field that deflects solar wind protons and extracts their momentum. The idea was first conceptualised by Pekka Janhunen in 2006 at the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
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description:
Proposed spacecraft propulsion device
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_sail
date created:
2007-03-13T13:36:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T20:10:43Z
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