Measuring the Interplanetary Medium with a Solar Sail

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 03:48:54 MDT

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This looks interesting (and kind of fun)

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0308108

Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0308108

From: Michael Martin Nieto <mmn@lanl.gov>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:26:23 GMT (9kb)

Measuring the Interplanetary Medium with a Solar Sail

Authors: Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev
Comments: 11 pages
Report-no: LA-UR-03-5541

      A solar sail mission to deep space could determine the density of
      the interplanetary medium by measuring the drag force on the huge
      sail with radiometric navigational data. Thus, a mission similar
      to the Interstellar Probe might consider retaining its sail beyond
      the orbit of Jupiter to measure the matter density in deep space.
      Such an experiment would a yield an independent, new type of
      measurement of the interplanetary medium and should be pursued.

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