#solarsail — Public Fediverse posts
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These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...
From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...
From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...
From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...
From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach...
From yours truly, "Reach for the suns".
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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I know I've shared this one a lot lately, but so help me I just love the energy of this piece, which I've been playing around with a bit; lo, a slightly softer and brighter version of my sci-fi caprice "Reach for the Light" (yes, those are solar sails in silhouette).
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #solarsail #spaceflight #scifi #sciencefiction #star #sun #sunspot #spaceart
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They might look "buggy", but hexagons are a real shape proposed for solar sails...and it looks like this fleet is going to take advantage of some serious radiation pressure, as they "Reach for the Suns".
Painting by me.
#art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #scifi
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Oh I'm sure it'd take the mother of all tinted windows to stop it from blinding you, but imagine being on a solar sail, making a fly-by to gain speed to your final destination, and then seeing *this* out your window. The ultimate scenic route, in my own painting, "Reach for the light".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #scifi #scifiart #spaceart #spaceflight #solarsail #spacecraft #sun #star #sunspot
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It might look a bit...off, at first glance, but hey, there are plenty of bright-white nigh-contact binary stars out there, and Maltese crosses have been proposed as a real shape for these crafts...
My own spacey piece, "Solar sailing round twin suns".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #solarsail #spacecraft #stars #binarystars
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It might look a bit...off, at first glance, but hey, there are plenty of bright-white nigh-contact binary stars out there, and Maltese crosses have been proposed as a real shape for these crafts...
My own spacey piece, "Solar sailing round twin suns".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #solarsail #spacecraft #stars #binarystars
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It might look a bit...off, at first glance, but hey, there are plenty of bright-white nigh-contact binary stars out there, and Maltese crosses have been proposed as a real shape for these crafts...
My own spacey piece, "Solar sailing round twin suns".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #solarsail #spacecraft #stars #binarystars
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It might look a bit...off, at first glance, but hey, there are plenty of bright-white nigh-contact binary stars out there, and Maltese crosses have been proposed as a real shape for these crafts...
My own spacey piece, "Solar sailing round twin suns".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #solarsail #spacecraft #stars #binarystars
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Yes, flying saucers are a real proposed shape for solar sails. No, I'm not apologizing for it. My own artwork, "Full sail under a red giant".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #scifi #scifiart #sciencefiction #spaceflight #solarsail
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My own artwork, "Reach for the Light": in the age of the solar sail, spacefarers will swing so close to sunspots it'll feel like they can reach right out and touch them. Perhaps, someday, we will...
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #scifi #sciencefiction #sun #spaceflight #solarsail
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Using sunlight to power up a flywheel in space to fling interstellar objects.
"Kipping began thinking about using sail materials to harvest the energy of solar photons, storing it in what could be considered a battery, and then using that stored energy, transformed into kinetic energy, to hurl a small spacecraft outwards."
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01/a-space-catapult-with-interstellar-potential/
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/230274/ Experimental Propulsion Tech Could Reach Mysterious Planet Beyond Pluto in 10 Years #NuclearFusion #OortCloud #Science #sedna #SolarSail #SolarSystem #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom
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A Giant Ribbon Can Pull Payloads Along
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.universetoday.com/171143/a-giant-ribbon-can-pull-payloads-along/
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Jetzt fühl ich mich wie Sisko … hab auf nem Planeten in No Man Sky nen Solarsegler gefunden ^^
Echt cool wie die Segel sich beim Starten/Landen aus- und einfahren. Außerdem bewegen sie sich beim Lenken mit :)
Ja, ich bin leicht zu begeistern *g*
Screenshot in VR aufgenommen.
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Would it be a blue universe without you? Who knows? Maybe it'd be a blue universe with you too, but when you're flying into the mists of space and time, what does it matter? Enjoy the ride on this, my "Blue solar sail".
#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #solarsail #scifiart #spaceart #spaceflight #scifi #sciencefiction
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Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) Onboard View of Sail/Boom During Unfurling
⏩ 4 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=4&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241203011539
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NASAの太陽帆宇宙船が曲がったブームを持ち、地球軌道でまだ回転している写真が公開されました
https://www.space.com/nasa-acs3-solar-sail-bent-boom
NASAが打ち上げたAdvanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3)が、地球軌道で軽微な問題を抱えている模様 #NASA #SolarSail #ACS3 -
Spacefarers of the future might appreciate the power and possibilities of a double star system, particularly one as massive and magnificent as this one: based on a real design for ships in the literature, my "Solar sailing round twin suns".
#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #solarsail #scifi #scifiart #spaceart #sciencefiction #doublestars #stars #starsystem
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Watch NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly in the Night Sky https://hackaday.com/2024/09/15/watch-nasas-solar-sail-reflect-brightly-in-the-night-sky/ #solarsail #Science #Space #News #ACS3 #nasa
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Watch NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly in the Night Sky - NASA’s ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System) is currently fully deployed in ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/15/watch-nasas-solar-sail-reflect-brightly-in-the-night-sky/ #solarsail #science #space #news #acs3 #nasa
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Just saw a favorable pass of the NASA #ACS3 #SolarSail near the zenith from Tucson. At its brightest, it was around the same brightness as δ Cyg and β Ceph, both about magnitude +3. At its faintest I couldn’t see it at all (unaided-eye). Zenith brightness at the time was 19.9 mag/arcsec2. Clearly still tumbling as well.
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And we have photos from space of the ~10 m x 10 m ACS3 solar sail that was deployed from a spacecraft the size of a stove
So shiny so chrome
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A SOLAR SAIL IS ORBITING EARTH: NASA's ACS3 solar sail was unfurled in Earth orbit last week, and it is putting on quite a show. Observers have photographed it flashing as brightly as Vega, the 5th-brightest star in the night sky. NASA is still learning to guide this "sailboat for photons." And you can see a 1.9M 65° pass in the sky tonight 9/6 all around the Westport Observatory, coming out of Earth's shadow at 8:59 in the SSE moving to the N. https://Spaceweather.com has more.
#NASA #ACS3 #SolarSail #WestportObservatory #WestportCT #NewEngland #astronomy #space
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#NASA's #SolarSail successfully spreads its wings in space | #Space
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NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space | Space
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What Happened to the $100 Million Dream to Send Sub-Gram-Sized Cameras to Alpha Centauri https://petapixel.com/2024/07/22/what-happened-to-the-100-million-dream-to-send-sub-gram-sized-cameras-to-alpha-centauri/ #breakthroughstarshot #Technology #technology #lightsail #solarsail #science #Space #space #News
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Dr. Slava G. Turyshev – Imaging Exoplanets Using Solar Gravitational Lensing - November 21st, 8:00 pm - https://mailchi.mp/was-ct/slava_turyshev
Also, open up to see one of our great telescopes for sale!
#WestportObservatory #Solar #GraviationalLense #solarsail #NASA #JPL #Exoplanets #telescopes #SGL #lecture #astronomy
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Watching Another Life S02E07. The scenes with the little drones shooting lazers into the solar sails look kind of cool. But for the drones to push the ship along, instead of being pushed backwards and away from it, they would require a greater force pushing them forward. In which case, why not just use the drone engines to push the ship along without the dopey solar sail?
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Rocket launch in November will test Purdue-developed drag sail that aims to reduce orbital debris - When space launch startup Firefly’s first planned orbital flight takes off in November, it’ll carry ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xveM1XCp4cY/ #purdueuniversity #launchvehicle #spaceflight #outerspace #aerospace #solarsail #startups #science #flight #rocket #space #tc
