From MIT: a highly acclaimed educational institute produced a roll to roll graphene on copper substrate process!!! There's your graphene and energy production that you smart intelligent scholars can cut and paste together your solar sails!! A roll to roll to solar sails from MIT!
To clear things up, it could reach much higher speeds than Voyager, but it would still take thousands of years to get there. Instead we could use a laser to propel the spacecraft, in which case it could reach its destination in 50 years, but it would require making probes way lighter than we are able to, a lot of energy to power the laser and it would still be uncertain whether they will be able to make it through the Oort cloud, and dark matter could mess the trajectories so much that the probes would just miss their target.
My understanding is that its theoretically possible to build and stagger them (to stop them sailing into earth) but the amount of resources is more than it would take to just fix climate change. Take that with a random youtuber sized grain of salt
@@disclaimer6872 Sun rays will slow it down. When it's travelling around the Sun it needs to angle itself so that it points between the Sun and its retrograde direction (opposite to the direction it's moving in). Then the force that Sun rays apply to it will point between away from the Sun and against the direction it's moving in, so it will be pushed slightly further away from the Sun, but also slow down, so its orbit will be lower.
Unless your rockets can clean up their exhaust that you shoot out into space from the ground all the way through our entire atmosphere where I don't drive my car then you're doing way more damage than I am
@@1ntwndrboy198 If you're gonna point fingers NASA is the least egregious offender out of most government agencies. The vast majority of our pollution comes from China rn, don't see any climate activists complaining to them.
R.I.P. NEA Scout, devastating to hear of its failure post-launch. I hope the team can recover and make test more cool solar sail stuff in the future!
they did! ACS3
Is it called solar sail because it is like the sail on a sailboat ? Is it advanced by this solar sail ? What is the principle ?
one step closer to a dyson swarm
Devastated that it failed to make contact and deploy. Please try again!
Would like to add some of my own data but I can't figure out how to get a hold of someone.
From MIT: a highly acclaimed educational institute produced a roll to roll graphene on copper substrate process!!! There's your graphene and energy production that you smart intelligent scholars can cut and paste together your solar sails!! A roll to roll to solar sails from MIT!
What is stopping us from sending one to proxima B?
Distance. It wouldn't get there much faster than Voyager
@@raptorwhite6468cap. This thing moves at 10% the speed of light.
@@raptorwhite6468blud? 😂
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To clear things up, it could reach much higher speeds than Voyager, but it would still take thousands of years to get there.
Instead we could use a laser to propel the spacecraft, in which case it could reach its destination in 50 years, but it would require making probes way lighter than we are able to, a lot of energy to power the laser and it would still be uncertain whether they will be able to make it through the Oort cloud, and dark matter could mess the trajectories so much that the probes would just miss their target.
That's extremely cool
Better change the spacecraft of voyager with this spacecraft. This spacecraft can make the old man may happier.
What about space debris hitting the sail?
Space is really empty.
Wow so cool!
Imagine my shock when I find out its cancelled.
Solar sail + electron thrusters.
Could they be used to block some sunlight to help cool the Earth?
My understanding is that its theoretically possible to build and stagger them (to stop them sailing into earth) but the amount of resources is more than it would take to just fix climate change. Take that with a random youtuber sized grain of salt
How can it travel towards the sun?
If it points in a direction between retrograde and radial out it will slow down and lower its orbit
@raptorwhite6468 But nothing can slow it down? It has no propulsion except for sun rays.
@@disclaimer6872 Sun rays will slow it down. When it's travelling around the Sun it needs to angle itself so that it points between the Sun and its retrograde direction (opposite to the direction it's moving in). Then the force that Sun rays apply to it will point between away from the Sun and against the direction it's moving in, so it will be pushed slightly further away from the Sun, but also slow down, so its orbit will be lower.
@@raptorwhite6468 interesting
Great
We got solar sail before gta6
Neat.
Unless your rockets can clean up their exhaust that you shoot out into space from the ground all the way through our entire atmosphere where I don't drive my car then you're doing way more damage than I am
So in other words NASA's using up my atmosphere to reach for their dreams which one will run out first?
Hi there! I think you might enjoy this video about how much rockets pollute: th-cam.com/video/C4VHfmiwuv4/w-d-xo.html
Its nothing compared to pollution created and heat created by cars and factories!!!
@@1ntwndrboy198 If you're gonna point fingers NASA is the least egregious offender out of most government agencies. The vast majority of our pollution comes from China rn, don't see any climate activists complaining to them.