Table of contentsMagnetic Ballooning through the Solar System
Credits
The Rocket Equation
Ad Astra?
Okay, how about Pluto
How do solar sails work?
Solar Sails and Space Tethers
Sea Sailing
Tacking Torques
The America’s Cup
Solar Sail Forces: Sunlight
“Pole Sitter” Auroral Observer
Trimmers
Solar Sails: Magnetic Torque
Torquers Are Not Propulsion!
Propulsive Forces
Scooped Twice@APW!
Principle of Mag Balloons
What it doesn’t look like.
Winglee’s M2P2
M2P2 Capabilities
The Plasma Inflator
Some Lab shots
What sort of things can go wrong?
PowerPoint Presentation
Tim, Dennis & Pump
Scaling from 3’ to 30’
roll footage
Some Firsts (to my knowledge)
Can balloons compete w/sails?
Black Plasma
What sort of mass loading?
A Mars Mission Scenario
Mars Express
Hypothetical Balloon
Conclusions
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Author: Robert Sheldon
E-mail: r*bs@rbsp.info
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