Editing Solar sail (section)

==External links==
{{Commons category|Solar sails}}
* [https://spectrum.ieee.org/deflecting-asteroids "Deflecting Asteroids"] by Gregory L. Matloff, ''IEEE Spectrum,'' April 2012
* [http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/ Planetary Society's solar sailing project]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140330023506/http://astroreview.com/issue/2012/article/the-solar-photon-sail-comes-of-age The Solar Photon Sail Comes of Age] by Gregory L. Matloff
* [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nanosaild.html NASA Mission Site for NanoSail-D] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707022615/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nanosaild.html |date=2008-07-07 }}
* ''NanoSail-D'' mission: Dana Coulter, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211221207/https://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/26jun_nanosaild.htm?list1097511 "NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment"], NASA, June 28, 2008
* [http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Solsail.htm Far-out Pathways to Space: Solar Sails] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017194705/http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Solsail.htm |date=2006-10-17 }} from NASA
* [http://www.solarsails.info/ Solar Sails] Comprehensive collection of solar sail information and references, maintained by Benjamin Diedrich. [http://wiki.solarsails.info/index.php?title=Tacking_Solar_Sails Good diagrams] showing how light sailors must tack.
* [http://www.u3p.net/ U3P] Multilingual site with news and flight simulators
* [http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2004/0809.shtml ISAS Deployed Solar Sail Film in Space]
* [http://www.solar-thruster-sailor.info/figs/fig13.html Suggestion of a solar sail with roller reefing, hybrid propulsion and a central docking and payload station.]
* [http://www.andybrain.com/extras/solar-sail.htm Interview with NASA's JPL about solar sail technology and missions]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204850/http://nuke.giovannivulpetti.it/SolarSailing/tabid/56/Default.aspx Website with technical pdf-files about solar-sailing, including NASA report and lectures at Aerospace Engineering School of Rome University]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060304160747/http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/4Landis.pdf Advanced Solar- and Laser-pushed Lightsail Concepts]
* {{Cite journal
 |url=http://www.andrews-space.com/images/videos/PAPERS/Pub-InterstellarTransportation(200307).pdf
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060311195517/http://www.andrews-space.com/images/videos/PAPERS/Pub-InterstellarTransportation%28200307%29.pdf
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-date=2006-03-11
 |title=Interstellar Transportation using Today's Physics
 |author=Andrews, D. G.
 |journal=AIAA Paper 2003-4691
 |year=2003
}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081226193057/http://www.aibep.org/ www.aibep.org: Official site of American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion]
* [http://www.spacesailing.com/ Space Sailing] Sailing ship concepts, operations, and history of concept
* [http://www.spacesailing.net/ Bernd Dachwald's Website] Broad information on sail propulsion and missions

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