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  2. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Solar Sailing
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.191420.16518@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Date: 21 Nov 92 19:14:20 GMT
  7. References: <N4HY.92Nov20111535@wahoo.UUCP> <20NOV199212594736@csa3.lbl.gov>
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  9. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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  13. In article <20NOV199212594736@csa3.lbl.gov> sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
  14. >There is more to Solar sailing, however, than just the radiation pressure.
  15. >The Solar wind contains massive particles which will also hit your
  16. >sail.  I don't have data handy for what the flux is, but you would
  17. >need to look it up and make some kind of correction for it.  It might
  18. >even dominate!
  19.  
  20. Solar wind pressures are about three orders of magnitude less than 
  21. light pressures. For any conventional sail design, they can pretty
  22. much be ignored.
  23.  
  24.                                                      Frank Crary
  25.                                                      CU Boulder
  26.