How to Sail on Starlight

2019-09-14

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References:

[1]

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/mercmessenger/issue10.pdf

[2] http://bit.ly/2kqLiWY

[3]http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/story-of-lightsail-part-1.html

[4] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/physics/chapter/29-4-photon-momentum/

[5] https://ccar.colorado.edu/scheeres/scheeres/assets/Theses%20and%20Abstracts/rios-reyes_dissertation.pdf

[6]http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html

[7] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/46702113.pdf

[8] http://bit.ly/2ku7GPp

[9] https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/31455/1/Macdonald_M_Pure_Solar_sailing_applications_and_technology_advancement_Feb_2011.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5c87/f248e68d3f666d55e94888013f32f92ebaa2.pdf

[10] https://ccar.colorado.edu/scheeres/scheeres/assets/Theses%20and%20Abstracts/rios-reyes_dissertation.pdf

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Atomic Numbers 1 - August Wilhelmsson

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