solar sailing n.
propelling a spacecraft via a solar sail n.
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1959
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Thomas N. Scortia
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There’s another very clever device for using the sun’s energy…and that’s the use of solar sailing.
Race into Space in Future Science Fiction June 109/1 -
1959 Marin News (Sausalito, California) 3 Jan. 3/5
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Solar sailing is based on the use of the pressure of sunlight (photons) reflected by a large thin sail in much the same way that sailboats use the wind.
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1973
Carl Sagan
Solar sailing, the use of the pressure of sunlight and of the protons and electrons in the solar wind for tripping through the solar system.
Cosmic Connection xxiii. 162 -
1988
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Charles Sheffield
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We can expect developments in chemical rockets, and we can expect ion propulsion and perhaps solar sailing and nuclear to help out on the long hauls.
Across the Great Divide in J. Baen New Destinies (#3) Spring 21 -
2008
Arthur C. Clarke
Frederik Pohl
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Natasha’s smile persisted as she thought of all the attempts she had made to explain solar sailing to audiences of potential backers and the merely curious on Earth.
Last Theorem xxxvii. 237
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Research History
Simon Koppel submitted a 1959 cite from a newspaper database.
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