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More like an active solar sail as opposed to a passive one.

I worked on a satellite in 1980s that had a solar sail for torque balance.


4 posted on 04/12/2016 3:17:07 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Rio

“I worked on a satellite in 1980s that had a solar sail for torque balance.”

If I watch heavenly bodies when I’m torqued I lose my balance. But that is a story for another time.


7 posted on 04/12/2016 4:28:19 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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