Solar Sails No Good for Astronauts?
太阳能航行对宇航员没有好处?
At one time or another, many of NASA's laboratories have studied solar sails.
某一段时间里,美国宇航局的许多实验室都在研究太阳帆。
The finding could aid the design of solar sails for interstellar sojourns.
这一发现可以帮助设计能够在星际间停留的太阳飞船。
Solar sails are not the quickest way to travel through space, but they are cheap.
利用几组太阳帆并非实现太空旅行最快捷的方式,但是它们的造价低廉。
That's the idea behind solar sails, which harness radiation for propulsion in space, for instance.
太空旅行计划促成这一想法的实现,比如利用太阳辐射产生推动力。
This radiation pressure is thought to shape the tails of comets and is useful for pushing solar sails in space.
这种辐射压力被认为是彗尾形成的原因。 另外,它也是太阳帆在太空中前进的动力来源。
Much like the wind pushing a sailboat through water, solar sails rely on sunlight to propel vehicles through space.
与风在水里吹着船非常相似,太空太空航行依靠太阳光推进航空器穿越太空。
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。
Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has used "smart glass" technology to steer using only the pressure of sunlight - a first for solar sails.
日本IKAROS号太空船仅仅只要在太阳光照射下,就可利用“智能玻璃”技术控制飞行。这是首次应用太阳反射器的一次飞行。
The idea is similar to that of solar sails, only instead of solar radiation one USES the magnetic particles found in the solar wind.
这个方案与太阳帆类似,只是将太阳辐射产生的推动力,换成了太阳风中的磁性粒子产生的推动力。
If this prototype, which is paid for by EADS, a European aerospace company, proves successful, solar sails might be added to many future satellites.
如果这个被EADS(一个欧洲航空公司)出自赞助的原型成功通过测试,那么太阳能翼板就会在很多未来的卫星中使用。
Such is the allure of solar sails—large, ultrathin mirrors that harness the faint pressure of the sun's reflected light to move through the vacuum of space.
这就是太阳帆,一个超大超薄的太阳帆能够让你通过太阳光的光压在真空中快速前进。
Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails — a unique propulsion technology that one day could enable deep space missions.
NASA的工程师将科幻小说中的素材变成了现实,他们正在检查太阳帆-这中独特的推进技术最终有一天会使深空任务成为可能。
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。
The successful deployment and operation of the Japanese IKAROS and NASA's NanoSail-D solar sails have demonstrated a key method for getting around in space, without having to use any propellant.
日本的伊卡洛斯飞船和NASA的纳米帆-D太阳帆的成功发射和展开,已经展示了一个不用任何发动机就可以在太空中徘徊的关键方法。
The sail captures constantly streaming solar particles, called photons, with giant sails built from a lightweight material.
这种帆非常巨大,用轻型材料制成,能捕获到稳定的太阳粒子流-光子。
Every night, Ra sails his solar boat into combat with Apep and at dawn he emerges triumphant and cruises across the sky.
每天晚上,Ra驾驭着他的太阳船投入与Apep的战斗,直到黎明时分,他胜利出现在地平线上,并划过天空。
Japan is to launch a "space yacht" propelled by solar particles that bounce off its kite-shaped sails.
日本将发射风筝形状的太阳能帆船,由太阳粒子推动,无需燃料即可地外航行. .。
Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society, says that the sails must be launched to test them, because there is no solar wind in Earth's atmosphere.
行星社执行官LouisFried man告诫道,太阳帆必须发射升空才能进行实验,因为在地球大气中不存在太阳风。
Solar Self-Sufficiency: The sails are covered on both sides by flexible photovoltaic panels that power the electric motors, electronics and on-board water-treatment system.
帆的两侧被柔韧性的充电面板覆盖,它给电机,电子线路和船上水处理系统供电。
A blade; thin canopy, it is a contemporary interpretation of the local Makuti (thatch) roof bandas on local homes, which over-sails unequally over the glazing, responding to solar incidence.
刀片儿一般薄的屋顶,这是模仿了当地一种茅屋的建筑方法。
A blade; thin canopy, it is a contemporary interpretation of the local Makuti (thatch) roof bandas on local homes, which over-sails unequally over the glazing, responding to solar incidence.
刀片儿一般薄的屋顶,这是模仿了当地一种茅屋的建筑方法。
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