How to Use solar sail in a Sentence

solar sail

noun

• As its name implies, LightSail 2 is not the first solar sail.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• The amount of force the photons will apply to the solar sail is equal to about 9 micro-Newtons per square meter.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• The first solar sail prototype, a product of Japan's space agency, flew to space in 2010.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 31 July 2019
• LightSail 2 was built to be the best-performing solar sail yet.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 31 July 2019
• The satellite will be propelled there by a sweeping solar sail.
  — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
• Another is a science nerd's dream — a solar sail project that has been centuries in the making.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 June 2019
• The Canadian Space Agency has suggested the use of a solar sail to do most of the work, rather than using thruster fuel.
  — David Rothery, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• This is the approach of LightSail 2—deploying the solar sail via CubeSat to prove it for large satellites.
  — Bobak Ferdowsi, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2018
• This spacecraft would be equipped with a solar sail, using the sun’s energy to make its journey.
  — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• With a solar sail, a spacecraft could keep going to the moon, to asteroids, to Jupiter — to anywhere the wind of light blows, using no fuel at all.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2019
• The solution, perhaps, will rely on the principle of solar sails.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• So what we're left with is primarily the challenge of building the material that will reflect light from the solar sail.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 May 2018
• To be clear, solar sails are different from solar panels.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
• Another cubesat will travel out to the small asteroid 1991VG under the power of a solar sail.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2016
• Some scientists have even proposed using a solar sail to send a lightweight probe to another star.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• After about a month, atmospheric drag will overpower the solar sail, ending the test.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• The Technion model involves affixing lightweight solar sails to a small satellite sent to L1.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Thus, even for a highly-advanced civilization, the authors argue that such a solar sail probe would be a project that would have no constituency.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Later on, solar sails might also make new types of missions possible.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• Swartzlander's solar sails would power CubeSats, the tiny satellites that have become en vogue due to their low cost and ability to be built with low cost.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2018
• Assuming everything goes as planned, the solar sail will raise LightSail 2 in its orbit about half a kilometer each day.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• Also in the clear: a solar sail demo targeting an asteroid.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
• Nye also foresees the possibility of using a solar sail to send materials to the Moon or Mars.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 21 June 2019
• This artificial object named 2020 SO was not designed to be a solar sail but had thin walls with a large surface-to-mass ratio for a different purpose.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 22 June 2021
• The middle-of-the-night rideshare features a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, clean and green rocket fuel, and even human ashes, including an astronaut's.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• Each exerts a little force on the future, like the accumulating photons behind a solar sail.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
• Namely, a large sun shade will also act like a solar sail, catching solar radiation that will push the structure out of position at L1.
  — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• While solar sails are an old concept, humans are just now experimenting with the basic concept.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• The solar sail also counts as a technology demonstration for JPL: a possible propulsion system for flying a small probe not too far from the sun, without the risk of running out of fuel.
  — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
• The key to such speedy trips is the 1 kg solar sails’ 720g of aerographite—an ultra-lightweight material with four times less density than most solar sail designs’ Mylar components.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024