News 29.8.2014
The electric sail to Uranus?
The electric sail is the spacecraft propulsion method invented at FMI. The international Finnish-led research team has now calculated and planned how the electric sail could be used to measure the exact composition of the planet Uranus' atmosphere in such a way that the flight time would be less than 6 years.
Janhunen, P., J.-P. Lebreton, S. Merikallio, M. Paton, G. Mengali jaA.A. Quarta: Fast E-sail Uranus entry probe mission, Planetary and SpaceScience, painossa, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2014.08.004