Can Ultralight Sails be made from Dust?

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Can Ultralight Sails be made from Dust?

The Rocket Equation

How about a fast Pluto flyby?

How do solar sails work?

Issues in Solar Sails

What About The Solar Wind?

Plasma Sail Capabilities

Dusty Plasma Sails

Hybrid Vigour

Hypothetical Dust Sail

Dusty Plasmas

Scaling Up

Magnetized, levitated dust

Saturn's Rings in the Lab

Importance of rings

UAH Spinning Terrella Experiment

Negative Biassed Magnet

Adding Dust?

Future Directions

Conclusions

Author: Robert Sheldon

E-mail: r*bs@rbsp.info

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