Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into ... the nano-degree range for optical instruments. Deploy the Main(solar)sail Another application for mechanisms is probably more obvious ...

Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into ... which gives us an opportunity to use a solar sail to either supplement the main engine, or to assist in trajectory insertion.

Jim Benford is organizing Project Forward, named after the legendary Robert Forward, as an Icarus Interstellar ... How do you slow a beamed sail down when it arrives at its target? Forward proposed ...

Although the idea of a solar sail was first proposed ... is looking to change all that with its IKAROS project – not a misspelling of Icarus, rather an abbreviation of Interplanetary Kite ...

The other obstacle is the sail ... in our solar neighborhood, people are going to want to go there. There will be a push for an interstellar mission and it's our hope that Project Icarus is ...

solar sail, Magsail, Medusa sail, microwave sail, orbital slingshot, aerobraking. This is an analysis by the Icarus project. Reverse engine thrust simply means using the same engine as used during the ...

If the mission proves successful, the hope is that the project, among other things, will help reduce commercial costs in the solar cell market ... bounce off the sail. Icarus, the Greek ...

The first-ever interstellar probe may cruise through space like a boat through the ocean, propelled by super-focused light beamed onto a sail the size of Texas. Solar sailing is perhaps humanity's ...