News 27.11.2013
The electric solar wind sail can be steered with small photon sails
The electric sail is an invention created at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and it is expected to be an efficient method for moving about in the solar system. The possibility of guiding the tethers of a rotating electric sail with small photon sails has been investigated at the Finnish meteorological Institute.
More information:
Research Manager Pekka Janhunen, tel +358 29 539 4635,pekka.janhunen@fmi.fi
Janhunen, P., Photonic spin control for solar wind electricsail, Acta Astronaut., 83, 85-90, 2013.