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Scots Engineers Prove Space Pioneer's 25-Year-Old Theory

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Although the displacement distance above or below the equator is small - of the order of 10 to 50 km - work on hybrid solar sails, which use both light pressure and thrust from a conventional electric propulsion system, is underway and aims to improve the displacement distance.

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Comment by Powell Gammill
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Here is an interesting proposal to use a solar sail to prove an Einstein theory:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar-sails-einstein-experiment-100726.html

 



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