P3_9 Solar Sails

Michael Perry, Nathan Pilkington, John Bettles, Iain Clarke

Abstract


The goal of this paper was to determine if it would be possible to leave the solar system using the power of a solar sail alone. It was determined to be unrealistic as for a 1kg mass a square sail with sides of length 267km would be needed to overcome the gravitational force due the Sun.


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