Solar sail interstellar travel: 1. Thickness of solar sail films

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 430-439

  Kezerashvili, Roman Y A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Conductivity of sail film; Near Sun space; Solar sail; Solar sail thickness; Space environment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; NEAR-SUN SPACE; SOLAR ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; SOLAR SAIL PROPULSION; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

FILM THICKNESS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SUN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 55149113218     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. C.R. Mclnnes, "Solar Sailing. Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications", Springer, Praxis Publishing, 1998.
2. G.L. Matloff, "Deep space probes. To outer solar system and beyond", 2nd. ed., Springer-Praxis, Chichester, UK, 2005.
3. D. Jewitt, A. Morbidelli, H. Rauer, "Trans-neptunium objects and comets: saas-fee advanced course 35", eds. K. Altwegg, W. Benz, N. Thomas, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
4. G.A. Krasinsky, E.V. Pitjeva, M.V. Vasilyev and E.I. Yagudina, "Hidden mass in the asteroid belt", Icarus, 158, pp.98-105, 2002.
5. M.E. Brown, C.A. Trujillo and D.L. Rabinowitz, "Discovery of a planetary-sized object in the scattered Kuiper Belt", Astrophysical Journal, 635, pp.L97-L100, 2005.
6. G. Vulpetti, "The Aurora Project; Flight Design of a Technology Demonstration Mission", in Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond, l" IAA Symposium on Realistic Near-Term Scientific Space Missions, ed. G. Genta, Levrotto & Bella, Turin, Italy, pp. 1-16, 1999.
7. V. Eshelman, "Gravitational lens of the Sun: its potential for observation and communication over interstellar distances", Science, 205, pp. 1133-1135, 1979.
8. A. Einstein, "Lens-like action of a star by the deviation of light in the gravitational field", Science, 84, pp.506-507, 1936.
9. C. Maccone, "The quasat satellite and its SETI applications': next step", ed. G. Marx, Kliwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1988.
10. J. Heidmann, C. Maccone, "ASTROsail and SETIsail: two extrasolar system missions to the Sun's gravitational focus", Acta Astronautica, 37, pp.409-410, 1994.
11. C. Maccone, "Space mission outside the solar system to exploit the gravitational lens of the Sun", JBIS, 47, pp.45-52, 1994.
12. C. Maccone, "Tethered system to get magnified radio pictures of the galactic center from a distance of 550 AU", Acta Astronautica, 45, pp.109-114, 1999.
13. C. Maccone, "The Sun as a Gravitational Lens: Proposed Space Missions", 2nd ed. IPI Press, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 1999;
14. rd ed., IPI Press, Boulder Colorado, 2003.
15. C. Maccone, "Cosmic microwave background and gravitational lens of the Sun", Acta Astronautica, 46, pp.605-614, 2000.
16. NASA, "Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is Squashed", Jet Propulsion Laboratory, December 10, 2007.
17. V.V. Koblik, E.N. Polyakhova, L.L. Sokolov, A.S. Shmirov, "Controlled solar sailing transfer flights into near-Sun orbits under restrictions on sail temperature", Cosmic Research, 34, pp.572-578, 1996.
18. G. L. 'Matloff, "The beryllium hollow-body solar sail and interstellar travel", JBIS, 59, pp.349-354, 2006.
19. G.L. Matloff, R. Ya. Kezerashvili, C. Maccone and Les Johnson, "The Beryllium Hollow-body Solar Sail: Exploration of the Sun's Gravitational Focus and the Inner Oort Cloud", 2008, physics.space-ph, arXiv: 0809.3535.
20. J. Strobl, "The hollow body solar sail", JBIS, 42, pp.515-520, 1989.
21. 2000 ASTM Standard Extraterrestrial Spectrum Reference E-490-00. http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/spectra/am0/. (Date Accessed 19 September 2008)
22. T.N. Woods et al, "Validation of the UARS Solar Ultraviolet Irradiances: Comparison with the ATLAS 1 and 2 Measurements", Journal of the Geophysical Research, 101, pp.9541-9569, 1996.
23. H. Neckel and D. Labs, "The Solar Spectrum Between 3300 and 12500 %", Solar Physics, 90, pp.205-258, 1984.
24. R.L. Kurucz, "ATLAS9 Stellar Atmosphere Programs and 2 km/s Grid", Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CD-ROM No. 13, 1993.
25. E.V.P. Smith and D.M. Gottlieb, "Solar Flux and its Variations", Space Science Reviews, 16, pp.771-802, 1974.
26. R. Ya. Kezerashvili and G.L. Matloff, "Solar radiation and the beryllium hollow-body sail: 1. The ionization and disintegration effects", JBIS, 60, pp. 169-179, 2007.
27. R. Ya. Kezerashvili and G.L. Matloff, "Solar radiation and the beryllium hollow-body sail: 2. Diffusion, recombination and erosion processes", JBIS, 61, pp.47-57, 2008.
28. A. Vasicek, "Optics of thin films", North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1960.
29. nd ed., Infinity Science Press LLC, 2007.
30. th (expanded and corrected) edition, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
31. th ed. Person Addison Wesley, 2002.
32. rd ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
33. C. Kittel, "Introduction to Solid State Physics", 8th ed., Willey & Sons, New York, 2005.
34. N.W. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, "Solid state physics", Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, 1976.
35. G.L. Matloff, "Interstellar Solar Sailing: Comparison of Five Candidate Sail Materials", IAA-99-IAA.4.1.09.
36. G. L. Matloff and R. Ya. Kezerashvili, "Interstellar Solar Sailing: A Figure of Merit for Monolayer Sails", JBIS, 61, pp.330-333, 2008.
37. W.F. Gale, C.J. Smithells and T.C. Totemeier, "Smithells Metals Reference Book", Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
38. http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/electrical.html. (Date Accessed 19 September 2008)
39. E.J. Lewis, "Some Thermal and Electrical Properties of Beryllium", Phys. Rev., 34, pp.1575 - 1587, 1929.
40. E.W. Muller, "Work function of tungsten single crystal planes measured by the field emission microscope", J. Appl. Phys., 26, 732, 1955.
41. rd Ed. Prentice Hall, 1999.
42. G. Vulpetti, S. Santoli and G. Mocci, "Preliminary investigation on carbon nanotube membranes for photon sail", JBIS, 61, pp.284-289, 2008.