单词	solar sail
释义	solar sail noun : a propulsive device for a spacecraft that consists of a flat material (such as aluminized plastic) designed to receive thrust from solar radiation pressure Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Another cubesat jointly developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory will use a solar sail to travel to a tiny asteroid and do a flyby of the surface. Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022 Also in the clear: a solar sail demo targeting an asteroid. Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022 Powered to the moon by the European Space Agency’s service module, Orion will deploy several small satellites and experimental craft including NEA Scout, a CubeSat developed in Huntsville and powered by solar sail propulsion. Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2022 The satellite will be propelled there by a sweeping solar sail. WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022 Previous solar sail projects largely used mirror-like surfaces to reflect particles of light, called photons. Denise Chow, NBC News, 26 May 2022 The concept of a diffractive solar sail was first selected for NIAC Phase 1 and Phase 2 status in 2019. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2022 Each exerts a little force on the future, like the accumulating photons behind a solar sail. Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022 This artificial object named 2020 SO was not designed to be a solar sail but had thin walls with a large surface-to-mass ratio for a different purpose. Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 22 June 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1958, in the meaning defined above
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