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Not an expert, but I'm going to say no. There is no medium in space, moving relative to the solar wind, against which the "keel" of a solar sail ship could push
by sopooneo 5y ago
Not an expert, but I'm going to say no. There is no medium in space, moving relative to the solar wind, against which the "keel" of a solar sail ship could push.
- adolph 5y agoGravity? I guess something with enough mass to use gravity might be too large to use solar sails.
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoGravity does not actually provide a force in the sense that a sailboat would require. (It acts on all parts of the vessel equally.) There is some work on the idea of using both a photon sail and a magnetic sail on a single vessel. In many interesting locations, these would push in different directions, allowing you to sail.