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Path to Fast Solar Sails

By Brian Wang

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Aug 30, 2024
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We need to make bigger solar sails from materials that can take high temperatures. Taking high temperatures means the solar sails could fly closer to the sun. If we got four times closer to the sun than Mercury (9 million miles or so )then we could go 20AU per year which is about 3 times faster than any spacecraft we have made. If we could go to about 2…

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