{"id":8678,"date":"2016-05-02T03:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2016-05-02T03:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:35:52","slug":"electric-sailnew-interstellar-spacecraft-sails-slam-on-brakes-for-exoplanet-flybys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/electric-sailnew-interstellar-spacecraft-sails-slam-on-brakes-for-exoplanet-flybys\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicker way to brake spacecraft on interstellar missions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists in the UK and Germany have come up with a quicker way to brake spacecraft on interstellar missions, by combining magnetic and electric sails.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Interstellar spacecraft will be able to\u00a0brake better and have the time to\u00a0take extended measurements of\u00a0their surroundings if they are constructed with\u00a0both magnetic and electric sails, according to\u00a0a recent study, called ‘<\/span>Combining Magnetic and Electric Sails for\u00a0Interstellar Deceleration<\/span><\/a>.’<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Currently, one of\u00a0the most promising technologies for\u00a0decelerating a spacecraft on\u00a0an\u00a0interstellar mission<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is the magnetic sail, which uses the deflection of\u00a0interstellar matter via\u00a0a magnetic field to\u00a0decelerate the spacecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, while the magnetic sail is very efficient at\u00a0high velocities, its performance decreases with\u00a0lower speeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To solve this problem, scientists from\u00a0the Technical University of\u00a0Munich and the Initiative for\u00a0Interstellar Studies in\u00a0London have proposed combining the magnetic sail with\u00a0an electric sail, which is more effective at\u00a0lower velocities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Msails fail to\u00a0produce sufficient forces in\u00a0the low speed limit and Esails require very large masses in\u00a0order to\u00a0decelerate from\u00a0the high cruising speeds of\u00a0interstellar missions,” they wrote in\u00a0their article,\u00a0<\/span>published on\u00a0arXiv.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0(sputniknews)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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