Interstellar solar sailing: A figure of merit for monolayer sail

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 330-333

  Matloff, Gregory L ^a   Kezerashvili, Roman Ya ^a  

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

Author keywords

Mass attenuation coefficient; Mass energy absorption coefficient; Solar sails; Space environment

Indexed keywords

DESIGNER MATERIALS; FIGURE OF MERITS; MASS ATTENUATION; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MASS ENERGY ABSORPTION; OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; TITANIUM FILM;

BERYLLIUM; FILMS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; PHOTONS;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 47749109425     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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