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Conservation of momentum gets in your way: you need to "throw" something out of the back of the satellite to get some momentum in the forward direction. Though
by alphaBetaGamma 14y ago
Conservation of momentum gets in your way: you need to "throw" something out of the back of the satellite to get some momentum in the forward direction.
Though you may read on solar sails though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
- joshlegs 14y agoThanks for the link. I read a little about solar sails in some of the other stuff I saw. This is a bit more comprehensive on the topic. I would imagine, though, that converting it is theoretically possible, since thrust is just the expenditure of energy, which the sun provides. I just didn't know if there was some technology that would allow for it.