Timeline for Could a solar sail composed of smart glass stay near the L1 point of Venus?
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 18:36 | comment | added | Camille Goudeseune | Something that's thin, UV-opaque, and otherwise sunlight-transparent might itself degrade from the UV quickly enough to shorten the mission. Usable lifetime is conspicuously missing from that news release, for instance. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | CuteKItty_pleaseStopBArking | Just slap on a transparent material that totally blocks/reflects the UV frequencies. Something like maybe this?: prnewswire.com/news-releases/… | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 17:10 | history | edited | Camille Goudeseune | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 15:50 | comment | added | Cornelis | @uhoh Thanks for your comment, i've learned from it. So changed the last sentence. | |
| Nov 4, 2019 at 9:31 | comment | added | Cornelis | Sorry if i didn't inform you well enough, but there are also so-called micro-blinds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass#Micro-Blinds | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 23:46 | comment | added | uhoh | 1. Even after the smart glass' ability to station keep was lost, a carefully placed object would remain near L1 for longer than a few months. 2. A thin UV filter applied to the front surface might be all that's needed to solve that problem. 3. An accelerometer would only detect propulsive or drag effects. It would not have any sensitivity to orbital perturbations. The test mass inside the accelerometer is in the same orbit as the rest of the spacecraft, so "The accelerometers would be sensitive enough." is wrong on a fundamental level. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 20:22 | history | answered | Camille Goudeseune | CC BY-SA 4.0 |