The beryllium hollow-body solar sail and interstellar travel

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 349-354

  Matloff, Gregory L ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hollow body solar sails; Interstellar travel; Solar sails

Indexed keywords

EXIT VELOCITY; INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL; METEOROID IMPACTS; SOLAR ORBITS; THERMAL ASPECTS;

BERYLLIUM; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 33749352964     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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