Timeline for What is the most stable configuration for a centrifugal ship towed by a solar sail?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 15:15 | history | edited | Jerard Puckett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Addressed a point brought up in comments to answer.
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | Jerard Puckett | @JamesJenkins: I can think of two possible engineering approaches to mitigate the problem. I'll add a third paragraph to my answer. | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 11:14 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @TildalWave concur, but you would need to add significant mass just to have the rotation speed of the sail match the rotational speed of the ship. While this is good answer (I upvoted) I don't think it is the best possible answer. | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 1:42 | comment | added | TildalWave | @JamesJenkins Sails could always be designed to be retractable if maintenance at radius stretching past the centrifuge / habitat ring would be required. I'd imagine size would be limited by centrifugal force the sail and support structure could tolerate, so largely dependent on its own weight per surface area and tensile strength. | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 0:26 | comment | added | James Jenkins | I did not even consider spinning the sail. But if the ship is spinning to give 1G and the sail is spinning at the same speed. Would that limit the potential size of your sail? Just imagining the forces and trying to do any kind of maintenance at the edges seems to be problematic. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:17 | history | edited | TildalWave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added some links, if it's changing too much just revert to a previous revision. Cheers! ;)
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:54 | history | answered | Jerard Puckett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |