Table of contentsCharacterization of Dusty Plasmas for Solar Sails
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
Robust
Dusty Plasma Sails
Hybrid Vigour
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Advantages of Dust
Hypothetical Dust Sail
Dusty Plasmas
Scaling Up
Magnetized, levitated dust
Saturn's Rings in the Lab
Importance of rings
UAH Spinning Terrella
Negative Biassed Magnet
Gossamer S/C grant from NASA
Phase 1: Spinning Terrella
Dust Levitation
Dust bunnies
Dust Sheet
Phase 1: MSFC/NSSTC
Dust Grain Laser Pressure
Dusty Sail Mass Loading
Kilogram/Newton vs. Grainsize
Dusty Sail Parameters
Conclusions
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Author: Robert Sheldon
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