Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory even once investigated sending a solar sail to rendezvous and ride along with Halley's Comet during its pass in 1986.
喷气推进实验室的科学家们甚至考虑在1986年哈雷彗星经过时发射一个太阳帆与它会合，并沿着它的轨迹飞行。
Modern solar sail spacecraft designs, like NanoSail-D or the Japanese interplanetary spacecraft IKAROS, rely on the small but continuous pressure from sunlight itself for thrust.
现代太阳帆航天器的设计，如纳米帆- D或者日本的行星飞船IKAROS，是以很少但是持续的太阳光为推动力。
Japan continues to have a program, and test solar sails have been deployed from satellites or rockets, but no one has ever gotten as far as trying to sail them anywhere.
日本一直有这样的计划，并且测试通过卫星和火箭部署的太阳帆，但是目前还没有人试着让帆飞行到任何地方去。
That's basically all there is to a solar sail, everything else is necessary engineering and physics complication.
这基本就是一个太阳帆所需的一切了，其余剩下的最多就是一些必要的工程和技术问题。
NASA plans to test a full-size solar sail for chemical-free propulsion and a deep space atomic clock.
此外，美国国家航空航天局（下文简称NASA）还计划测试一个完整尺寸的太阳帆，为航天器提供绿色推进能源，以及测试一个深空原子钟。
In an unusual take on a self-portrait, a camera aboard Japan's Ikaros spacecraft separated from the main body on June 15 to snap this first picture of the craft's fully deployed solar sail.
在这张不寻常的自拍照片，一台照相机按装在日本的伊卡洛斯飞船上，此飞船于6月15日与其主体脱离后，拍摄了第一张全部展开的太阳帆照片。
The NanoSail-D may be followed over the next three years by another solar sail, this one built by the Planetary Society, a nonprofit space advocacy organization in Pasadena, Calif.
NanoSail - d结束飞行任务三年后，将有另外一个太阳帆发射升空，它由位于加州Pasadena的非营利性组织行星社(The PlanetarySociety)制造。
Today, there are three main types of space sail: solar ( the one NASA plans to test), electric (being developed in Finland) and magnetic (a concept popular in the 1980s that never quite took off).
现今已有3种主要的太阳帆：太阳驱动（NASA计划测试的类型），电驱动（正在芬兰开发）和磁驱动（1980年代很时髦如今也不算太过时）。
Other groups around the world are expected to launch solar sail demonstrators soon.
世界其他国家的航天机构也计划在不久的将来发射太阳帆飞行器。
A magnetic space sail would also rely on the solar wind for momentum.
磁驱动空间帆同样依赖太阳帆产生动能。
The Mariner 10 probe successfully demonstrated the technology in 1974 when NASA used the probe's solar arrays as an impromptu sail.
美国宇航局的税收10号探测器在1974年成功进行了一次技术演示，当时它即兴地用自己的太阳能板当作太阳帆来使用。
Solar-sail ships go faster the longer they travel.
太阳帆飞船走得越久速度越快。
Dr. Shirley said that the solar sail was feasible and that the only question was, “Do you want to spend some money?”
谢利博士说，太阳帆的设想是可行的，唯一的问题是“你愿意为它花钱吗？”
Update: The Planetary Society plans to launch a 105-square-foot solar-sail craft into space this fall.
最新消息：美国行星学会(ThePlanetary Society)计划在今秋发射一艘105平方英尺(约10平方米)的太阳帆太空船。
A solar sail vessel would merely enter the stream and hitch a ride, like a paper airplane drifting into the wind made by an electric fan.
太阳帆飞船只消进入这条高速公路，然后搭车远航便是，就像是电风扇吹动纸飞机前行一样。
The satellite is designed to test the effectiveness of what is called solar sail propulsion.
该卫星的设计目的是测试太阳帆推进技术的有效性。
The group says the solar sail can be seen from the earth in the middle of June.
该组织表示，六月中旬可以从地球看到该太阳帆。
The theoretical equation system of structural analysis on solar sail is given in this paper.
本文推导建立了太阳帆结构分析的理论方程组；
Solar sail is a kind of space probe sended into outer space by mankind.
太阳帆是人类向太空发射的一种宇宙探测器。
Lastly, the deflection capabilities of traditional gravitational tractor and solar sail gravitational tractor are compared.
最后，比较了普通引力拖车和太阳帆引力拖车的偏移能力。
Solar sail spacecraft dynamic modeling and solving are the basis of attitude control and structural vibration suppression, and they are of important theoretical and engineering significance.
太阳帆航天器动力学建模与求解是姿态控制与结构振动抑制的基础，具有重要的理论与工程意义。
With passive control, the solar sail orbit is stable and its initial momentum determines the orbit parameters.
在只考虑轨道动力学的情况下，分析了太阳帆的被动控制。
Right now, one key technological problem for solar-sail spacecraft lies in how to efficiently unroll solar sails in space.
目前，光帆飞船的一个关键性技术难题在于如何在太空中高效地展开太阳帆。
Right now, one key technological problem for solar-sail spacecraft lies in how to efficiently unroll solar sails in space.
目前，光帆飞船的一个关键性技术难题在于如何在太空中高效地展开太阳帆。
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