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2011 (English)In: EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, 2011Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is a novelpropulsion concept that enables faster space travel tomany solar system targets. E-sail uses charged solarwind particles as the source of its propulsion. This isachieved by deploying long, conducting and chargedtethers, which get pushed by the solar wind byCoulomb drag [1].E-sail technology is being developed to technicalreadiness level (TRL) 4-5 by the European Union’sSeventh Framework Programme for Research andTechnological Development, EU FP7, in a projectnamed ESAIL (http://www.electric-sailing.fi/fp7).Prototypes of the key parts are to be produced. Thedesign will be scalable so that a real solar winddemonstration mission could be scaled up from them.We review here the latest results of the constantlyevolving E-sail project.
Series
EPSC Abstracts ; 6
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Engineering Science with specialization in Microsystems Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-163743 (URN)
Conference
European Planetary Science Congress - DPS Joint Meeting 2011 - La Cité Internationale des Congrès Nantes Métropole, 02 – 07 October 2011, Nantes, France
2011-12-192011-12-142013-03-21Bibliographically approved