{"id":2519,"date":"2013-05-28T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2013-05-28T21:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:11:56","slug":"sunjammer-solar-sail-to-fly-far-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Sunjammer solar sail to fly far in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/tdm\/solarsail\/solarsail_overview.html\" target=\"_d\">Sunjammer Project<\/a> will fly the largest solar sail ever deployed in space, a\u00a0 1200 sq. meter sail built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgarde.com\/\" target=\"_d\">L&#8217;Garde<\/a>. Scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2014, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgarde.com\/programs\/space-propulsion\/sunjammer\/\" target=\"_d\">Sunjammer<\/a> spacecraft will aim for a location 300M kilometers from earth. The goals of the project include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Demonstrate segmented deployment of a solar sail with ~4X the area of that vacuum tested at Plum Brook, \u201ccookie cut\u201d from the center of a much larger sail.<\/p>\n<p>2. Demonstrate attitude control plus passive stability and trim using beam-tip vanes.<\/p>\n<p>3. Execute a navigation sequence with mission-capable accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>4. Fly to and Maintain Position at L1 and pole sitter positions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking advantage of the sunlight force on the sail, such spacecraft should be able to achieve stable orbital locations relative to earth that would provide excellent places to detect solar\u00a0 storms and send warnings back home. Sunjammer will carry two solar wind measurement\u00a0 instruments built by groups in the UK:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Article.aspx?id=\/article-xml\/AW_05_27_2013_p28-581819.xml\" target=\"_d\">Space-Weather Instruments Added To Solar-Sail Demo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/space\/10034237\/Sunjammer-spacecraft-to-sail-towards-the-sun.html\" target=\"_d\">Sunjammer spacecraft to &#8216;sail&#8217; towards the sun &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA funded Sunjammer Project will fly the largest solar sail ever deployed in space, a\u00a0 1200 sq. meter sail built by L&#8217;Garde. Scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2014, the Sunjammer spacecraft will aim for a location 300M kilometers from earth. The goals of the project include: 1. Demonstrate segmented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunjammer solar sail to fly far in 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-ED","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=337","url_meta":{"origin":2519,"position":0},"title":"Sunjammer solar sail to fly in 2014","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunjammer in orbit. 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