The solar sail technology is multi-use.

The same technology is used to make kilometer-size solar sail can use also for making large-size solar panels that can send to the orbiter. And similar mylar layers can use to make large-size radar and electronic surveillance antennas that are orbiting the earth. 

And the large-size mylar structures can also use for making the large radio telescopes that can send away from Kuiper Belt. Electricity to those systems can deliver by using lasers. And the core of those large sails can cover by using silicon atoms. 

Researchers have created an idea to send large solar sails to Alpha Centauri by using powerful laser systems. In that project, the idea is to use extremely powerful lasers for accelerating the solar sail to journey to the Alpha Centauri system. 

The same technology is used to make kilometer-size solar sail can use also for making large-size solar panels that can send to the orbiter. And similar mylar layers can use to make large-size radar and electronic surveillance antennas that are orbiting the earth. 

The light- or solar sail technology can take probes to Mars and farther at a cheap price. The solar sail is a large sail that is made by using mylar or some other strong material. The idea of a solar sail is that the solar wind is blowing that thing away from the sun. And in some visions, solar sails would give more energy from lasers that are accelerating that thing away from the solar system. The idea is that the solar sail can use the large mylar sail structure as a communication antenna. 

And if a large-size mylar layer is covered with silicon atoms. That system can use to make large-scale solar panels. And maybe the power satellites are true sooner than we think. 

The thrust of solar sail can increase by covering the mylar layer with a thin layer of iced gas. When lasers hit that gas it vaporizes and then it increases its thrust. The solar sail is an interesting system because the same concepts can use for sending large-size structures to space. 

The same technology is used in solar sails. Can use in large-scale radio telescopes and radar antennas. Those large-size antennas can monitor astronomical radio objects. Or they can use in very high powerful and accurate radars and signal intelligence systems. 

An extremely thin mylar layer can cover by a one- or two atoms-thin metal layer. And that system makes this type of structure suitable to use in large orbiting radars and electronic surveillance systems. 

The light- or solar sail technology can take probes to Mars and farther at a cheap price. The solar sail is a large sail that is made by using mylar or some other strong material. The idea of a solar sail is that the solar wind is blowing that thing away from the sun. And in some visions, solar sails would give more energy from lasers that are accelerating that thing away from the solar system. The idea is that the solar sail can use the large mylar sail structure as a communication antenna. 

And if a large-size mylar layer is covered with silicon atoms. That system can use to make large-scale solar panels. And maybe the power satellites are true sooner than we think. 

The thrust of solar sail can increase by covering the mylar layer with a thin layer of iced gas. When lasers hit that gas it vaporizes and then it increases its thrust. The solar sail is an interesting system because the same concepts can use for sending large-size structures to space. 

The same technology is used in solar sails. Can use in large-scale radio telescopes and radar antennas. Those large-size antennas can monitor astronomical radio objects. Or they can use in very high powerful and accurate radars and signal intelligence systems. 

An extremely thin mylar layer can cover by a one- or two atoms-thin metal layer. And that system makes this type of structure suitable to use in large orbiting radars and electronic surveillance systems. 

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Fictional travel to Alpha Centauri by using laser boosted solar sail

NASA's solar sail
(Picture I)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In this text, I would think about fictional space trip to Alpha Centauri by using solar sails, what are boosted with laser or microwave beams. The use of lasers with solar sails would give very much improvements to that system. The problems with laser-systems are that the material of the targeted spacecraft would be heated in extreme temperature, but when we are thinking about the use of lasers as the improve the thrust of that very large sail, we must think this problem practically.


Big size of solar sails would allow that the heat of the laser rays would circulate in the larger area, and that would help to decrease the heat, what powerful lasers would send to the target.  Those lasers, what would be used in that kind of program, might be kilometers long, and they might be stationed near the Earth. Making those kilometers long free-electron lasers or powerful masers is a quite simple thing.


There must send many small satellites to space, and then those satellites must be connected together. In this case, those satellites would be equipped with the particle accelerator, what goes thru each satellite and then those satellites would be made very powerful ray, that can be targeted to the solar sail. In this case, the solar sail would be covered with ice, and that ice is no need to be made by water. Then the laser-ray would steam that ice, and that would improve the speed and thrust of the solar sail. This is the good thing to pump the energy for the spacecraft, that would send to Alpha Centauri in some day in future.  The use of lasers or masers would allow using the power source of the spacecraft with smaller power, and that would increase the system lifetime.


When we are thinking about the structure of that solar sail, we might think, that there would be very many small units in this probe, and it would look like some jewels are connected with the same spiders net and the miniaturization and multiplication of that system would improve the solar sails ability to survive that mission. And when this solar sai comes near Alpha Centauri, it would turn sideways to the star, and then increase the layer, what would face the solar wind of that star.  This would help it to transfer it to the orbital trajectory of that star.


And then it could send thousands of pea-sized miniature probes to the planets of that star. That would seem like science fiction, but using miniaturized probes that kind of mission would be done, and the destruction of one particle, would not destroy all probes, and this hypothetical mission would be accomplished surer than with one single probe.  There is only one problem with that system, those massive lasers can be mentioned as the military technology. And that would cause the resistance against this kind of projects.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiHDCOYgYsk

https://www.space.com/10678-nasa-solar-sail-photo-contest.html

Picture I

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/475897main_080421-earthsail_3023x2006.jpg

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Is this the solar sail-type spacecraft or optical illusion (Fata morgana)?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Here is one picture, where is a strange formation in the sky. I see there a square, but it could also be some kind of optical trick. I have thought that maybe this strange square is actually solar sail experiment. But there is also more explanations, and who knows about this. Maybe it is the visitor from another star, who knows, and I had the opportunity to see it from the ground.

Artist's impression of solar sail
(Picture II)

And it can also be some optical trick. The equilateral square is very unusual form in the sky, and I must take a picture of it. The form can be caused by some kind of tests of communication systems, or it can be made on purpose, and there is one reason, what might be the reason for creating that kind of form to the sky. This could be the test of some communication lasers and for those systems must the clouds cut away from the radiation.


Or this form can be caused by very large Mylar layer, what is used in the huge sails, what is planned to use for the traveling in our solar system. This kind of huge sails would use the particle flow, what is called a solar wind to accelerate the probes in the space. Those sails are extremely huge, but very thin material, and their width is probably only a couple of atoms. That kind of structures can cause this kind of squares to the skies. But there could be many good explanations for that thing, and one is an optical illusion.

Sources


https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/index.html

Picture II

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/475897main_080421-earthsail_3023x2006.jpg

https://sites.google.com/view/sunnyday01062018/square

Pyramids and the capacity to recharge the batteries thru the air.

Picture 1

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In the above is one artwork, what has inspired many engineers to think the way of transfer the high voltage electricity thru the air. This might make possible to create the extremely large air vehicles, what have the capacity for extremely long enduring operations, and those things might stay in the air even for years. If those vehicles can recharge their power system, that makes easier to supply those air vehicles.


The shape of the pyramid has given ideas for many engineer work, what consists a theory of the transmit the electric power across the air. In this model in the sides or the edges of the pyramid structure will put the copper wires, what will connect the electric wires, what is pulled from the power station via ground. In the middle of the structure must be the upper wire, what will make the opposite effect of the lightning conductor.


Another wire will connect to the aerial vehicle, and then the lightning will jump into the airship. Another way to give that opposite electric charge to the airship. This structure allows reloading the batteries of the airship.


The purpose of this kind of devices is to make possible to reload the batteries of the electric powered aerial vehicles. In this scenario, the aerial vehicle works like the thundercloud, and if there is a possibility to reload the batteries via air, that artwork might be useful for the very large airships and extreme long enduring UAV:s. But there is one spectacular version of that thing.


It is something, what will be possible only in the science fiction. It bases the Neutron star, what will send the massive high voltage electron-rays across the universe. If we sometimes get enough highly advanced technology, we might create the spaceship what uses the electrons of the pulsars for power supply, and they might use the ion motors for traveling across the universe.


In this scenario, the spacecraft might use the pulsar’s electron rays for sailing out of the solar system. And it works like some solar sails, but the thing, what is used might be the electron flow, what comes from the pulsar. And this thing might be possible until we will travel to the solar system, what has the neutron star. Until that trip, this writing is a pure theory.

Source of the picture 1

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/galleries/x701/120121.jpg