Space Mog | Are solar sails the future of human space travel? @SpaceMog | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 12 hours ago
Hi Spacecats, I'm Dr Maggie Lieu and welcome to my channel, where you can find all things space, astronomy and physics! Thanks to M Ball, In this video, I talk about solar sail technology and why they cant take us to Mars.

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Extra reading:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117710007982?casa_token=Q4lhoZhSDFgAAAAA:AhIyIKf7PnF1cjmnConbcENyXfoQmbTcmZT5AixgWiEEZGKy9te35YloWccNCXSfTnsrx4Dwjw

Media credits:
Sun: SOLO/ESA/ATG media lab
solar sail deployment: the planetary society
gravity assist: ESA


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