Abstract Space sails are a continuum of lightweight, thin, large-area, deployable
technologies which are pushing forward new frontiers in space mobility and exploration …

To obtain significant drag from a magnetic sail, it is necessary to generate a large magnetic
moment. However, even with superconducting coils, a coil radius of several kilometers is …

THE solar wind in interplanetary space is a high-speed plasma flow (300–1000 km= s) from
the sun, and there are some space propulsion concepts that use an artificial magnetosphere …

A spacecraft needs to perform maneuvers in the neighborhood of the body that it orbits in
order to achieve the targets of its mission. These maneuvers are usually performed with …

I. Introduction new space propulsion system must be rapidly developed in order to shorten
mission times and to achieve high energy efficiency. In 2000, Winglee, et al. 1 suggested a …

Solar wind interaction with a kinetic scale magnetosphere and the resulting momentum
transfer process are investigated by 2.5-dimensional full kinetic particle-in-cell simulations …

There are many active protecting methods including Electrostatic Fields, Confined Magnetic
Field, Unconfined Magnetic Field and Plasma Shielding etc. for defending the high-energy …

磁帆是一种基于太阳风等离子体的新型推进技术, 它通过大尺度线圈产生磁场来偏折太阳风
等离子体从而产生推力, 在长周期行星际航行任务中具有重要的应用潜力. 由于磁帆相比常规电 …

Magnetic Sail is a spacecraft propulsion system that generates an artificial magnetosphere
to block solar wind particles and uses the imparted momentum to accelerate a spacecraft …

To propel a spacecraft in the direction leaving the Sun, a magnetic sail (MagSail) produces a
large-scale magnetic cavity to block the hypersonic solar wind plasma flow. MagSail with …