2013年2月6日星期三
NASA to fly largest solar sail ever
NASA is getting ready to ride the "winds" of space on sails lighter than gossamer, yet large enough to cover a small field. The space agency's Solar Sail Demonstration, also known as the Sunjammer Project, may launch as early as 2014 when it will send the largest solar sail yet built into orbit,Chefs Kitchen Knives to demonstrate the technical viability of the device.Sunjammer and the term "solar sailing" were coined by Sir Arthur C. Clarke in his 1964 short story, The Sunjammer. It's an idea that goes back to Johannes Kepler, though it was James Clerk Maxwell whose theory of electromagnetic fields and radiation showed that a sail could be pushed by sunlight.
It's an unbelievably tiny push, so the payload must be very small and the sails very large and light, but over time it can really add up. A typical spacecraft on the way to Mars can be pushed as much as 1,000 kilometers during the journey even without solar sails.Structure of Impact Crusher:The Mineral Jaw crusher is mainly made up of rotor rack, impact rack, ratchet wheel cover-open device, rotating parts as well as other components.All impact boards are made of high manganese steel.Working principle of Portable crusher.When the impact crushing machine works, the motor drives the rotor rotate of the impact crusher with high speed, on the rotor where installed the hammers. NASA's Messenger probe, for example, used its solar panels as sails for making course corrections.The basic design of a solar sailing spacecraft is an ultralight mirrored Mylar sail controlled by spider thread-like lanyards, that is propelled by the pressure of light from the sun. The term solar sailing is apt because the principle is exactly the same as with nautical sailing, with the same maneuvers of tacking, luffing and running before the "wind." The hard part is coming up with a design that is light enough to be pushed by sunlight, yet that can maintain its shape without collapsing,Xinjiang China Tours so solar sails tend to be either web-like affairs or spun to keep their shape through centrifugal force.
In Sir Arthur's short story, the solar sails were used to propel manned space yachts in a race around the Moon. NASA is much less ambitious. The Sunjammer's "In-Space Demonstration of a Mission-Capable Solar Sail" is intended simply to test the feasibility of solar sails, and the design of the unmanned craft reflects this. It's seven times larger and weighs ten times less than previous solar sails. Measuring approximately 124 feet (38 m) on a side, it covers almost 13,000 square feet (1207 m2) or a third of an acre.Despite this, it weighs only 70 pounds (32 kg) and collapses to the size of a dishwasher. It uses vanes for attitude control,I was checking out a tile catalogue and identified a lot of exciting Novelty Multiuse Keychai designs and at sensible prices. There had been Armenian flowers, circular fish design tile, trees of life tile, cobalt blue peacock and a lot of other exciting designs. and the total force that it's designed to deal with is only about 0.01 newton – or around the weight of a packet of artificial sweetener.
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