1. Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
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Johnson, Les, Barnes, Nathan, Ceriotti, Matteo, Chen, Thomas Y., Davoyan, Artur, Friedman, Louis, Garber, Darren, Kezerashvili, Roman, Kobayashi, Ken, Matloff, Greg, McInnes, Colin, Mulligan, Pat, Swartzlander, Grover, and Turyshev, Slava G.
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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
Solar sails enable missions to observe the solar environment from unique vantage points, such as sustained observations away from the Sun-Earth line; sub-L1 station keeping; high inclination solar orbits; Earth polar-sitting and polar-viewing observatories; fast transit missions to study heliosphere to interstellar medium transition, as well as missions of interest across a broad user community. Recent and planned demonstration missions make this technology ready for use on near-term science missions., Comment: Heliophysics 2050 White Paper
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- 2023
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