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  1. Fabienne Seibert will soon attend the 2026 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (Whistler, BC, Canada, 26-30 July 2026). She will present her work on:

    "Trajectory Optimisation with Attitude Feasibility Constraints for Solar Sailcraft Kinetic Impactor Missions"

    space-flight.org/docs/2026_sum

    #conference #space #engineering #asteroid #solarsail #planetarydefence

  2. Fabienne Seibert will soon attend the 2026 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (Whistler, BC, Canada, 26-30 July 2026). She will present her work on:

    "Trajectory Optimisation with Attitude Feasibility Constraints for Solar Sailcraft Kinetic Impactor Missions"

    space-flight.org/docs/2026_sum

    #conference #space #engineering #asteroid #solarsail #planetarydefence

  3. Space Weather/rocket launch

    China is about to launch Long March 8 Flight 7 (Solar Sail mission) straight into a solar storm.

    Good luck! Watch live:
    youtube.com/watch?v=RSDUGmnXlBE

    #spaceweather
    #longmarch
    #solarsail
    #g7izu

  4. Space Weather/rocket launch

    China is about to launch Long March 8 Flight 7 (Solar Sail mission) straight into a solar storm.

    Good luck! Watch live:
    youtube.com/watch?v=RSDUGmnXlBE

    #spaceweather
    #longmarch
    #solarsail
    #g7izu

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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."

    centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01

    #Energy #Storage #Space #SolarSail #Concepts

  20. 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."

    centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01

    #Energy #Storage #Space #SolarSail #Concepts

  21. 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.

    #nomansky #vr #solarsail

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. Watch NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly in the Night Sky - NASA’s ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System) is currently fully deployed in ... - hackaday.com/2024/09/15/watch- #solarsail #science #space #news #acs3 #nasa

  28. Watch NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly in the Night Sky - NASA’s ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System) is currently fully deployed in ... - hackaday.com/2024/09/15/watch- #solarsail #science #space #news #acs3 #nasa

  29. 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.

  30. 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

    #nasa #solarsail #spacetech

    blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites

  31. 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

    #nasa #solarsail #spacetech

    blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites

  32. NASA’s Advanced Composite #SolarSail System is now fully deployed in space after a successful test of its sail-hoisting boom system; mission operators confirmed success at 17:33 UTC today, after receiving data from the spacecraft: blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites - centrally located aboard the spacecraft are four cameras which captured a panoramic view of the reflective sail and supporting composite booms; high-resolution imagery from these cameras will be available on Wednesday, Sept. 4.