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Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews and Robert Zubrin have done considerable study on magnetic sails, which use a magnetic field to reflect charged particles for propulsion.
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Alfred W. Differ - adiffer@jpaerospace.com
Project: Interworld Transport
K. Eric Drexler
Eric Drexler invented the high performance solar sail for his MS thesis at the MIT department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
His current field of research is in nanotechnology, as chairman of the Foresight Institute and author of Engines of Creation.
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Robert L. Forward - forward@whidbey.com
Robert Forward writes numerous papers on space travel, including many novel solar sail designs and applications.
These have included, but are not limited to, microwave sails, designs for flyby, one way, and two way laser driven solar sails, the solar photon thruster, and sail levitated orbits.
Robert Forward is also a partner and chief scientist of Tethers Unlimited.
Books:
Rocheworld,
Martian Rainbow,
Timemaster, and others.
Technical Publications - Includes many full-length papers in PDF format.
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Louis Friedman
Louis Friedman is the executive director of The Planetary Society.
Book: Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel
Articles and Reports
Geoffrey A. Landis - geoffrey.landis@sff.net
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Manfred Leipold - manfred.leipold@dlr.de
Manfred Leipold works in the Institute of Planetary Exploration of the German Space Agency (DLR).
He has worked with NASA on a joint DLR/NASA study of a demonstration solar sail mission.
He has also worked on studies of other solar sail missions.
See the linked entitled "Missions" from the DLR Solar Sail Homepage.
Links:
Eugene F. Mallove
Book: The Starflight Handbook
Articles and Reports
Gregory L. Matloff
Book: The Starflight Handbook
Articles and Reports
Colin R. McInnes - colinmc@aero.gla.ac.uk
Book: Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications
Articles and Reports
Esther Morrow
Publications: Solar Sails at Asteroids: Close Proximity Operations for Scientific Missions
Patricia Mulligan - Patricia.Mulligan@noaa.gov
Project: GEOSTORMS
Andrea Schena - lucarelli@nava1.uninav.it
Andrea Schena recently completed a thesis on solar sail navigation, including the maneuvers to place a solar sail into a desired levitated orbit.
Robert L. Staehle - Robert.L.Staehle@jpl.nasa.gov
Robert Staehle was the president of the World Space Foundation and currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Fridrikh Tsander
Fridrikh Tsander was an early Russian space visionary who discussed using large, lightweight mirrors for spacecraft propulsion.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was an early Russian space visionary who discussed the possibility of propelling spacecraft by using a beam of light like rocket exhaust.
Jerome Wright - wright1225@hotmail.com
Jerome Wright developed a trajectory to rendezvous with Halley's Comet by solar sail in a little over four years from a 1981 launch.
Wright joined a JPL project prompted by his work to design a solar sail for a Halley rendezvous.
This was the most thorough study of solar sailing to date, which produced much valuable information on solar sailing in general and on specific configurations.
Unfortunately, funding was cut for the solar sail in favor of ion engine propulsion, which was also cut later.
After the JPL project was canceled, Wright and others started the World Space Foundation, which built square sail engineering models and manufacturing equipment.
Their design was to be launched on a race against other sail designs by groups around the world in a race to the moon and mars.
Book: Space Sailing
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Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin and Dana Andrews have done considerable study on magnetic sails, which use a magnetic field to deflect charged particles for propulsion.
Robert Zubrin is a founder of the Mars Society, president of Pioneer Astronautics, and is on the executive commitee of the National Space Society.
Articles and Reports
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