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LECTURE: Solar sailing through space
14 februari 2023
19:30 uur
- 21:00 uur
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LECTURE: Solar sailing through space
Date: Tuesday 14th February 2023, 19.30h – 21.00h
Location: University of Twente, Vrijhof / Amphitheater
A solar sail lets a spacecraft ride on sunlight the way sailboats ride on the wind. Dr. Jeannette Heiligers (TU Delft) uses the propulsion capabilities of solar sailing for a sustainable ‘space duster’: a device that moves to a piece of debris and deorbits it, so that space gets cleaner.
Solar sails can also be used as shields. If an immense solar shield were to be unfolded in space, this could reduce the Earth's temperature and limit the effects of climate change. Is this a wise thing to do?
This lecture is organized in cooperation with Studium Generale and Space Society Twente.