Preliminary investigation on carbon nanotube membranes for photon solar sails

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 284-289

  Vulpetti, Giovanni ^a   Santoli, Salvatore ^b   Mocci, Gabriele ^c  

^a Galileian Plus   (Italy)

^b INT   (Italy)

^c TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube membranes; Monolayer solar sails

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; GROUND STATIONS; TRAJECTORY EQUATION; ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE;

LOADING; MATERIALS; MOON; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 47749142782     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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