Solar Sail Construction Platform

$ 449.00

15X24
Acrylic

Solar Sails are the lightest and most delicate of reflective films. They are enormous, for the way they propel the spacecraft is by actually catching the sun's rays. Believe it or not, because it is a scientific fact and not fiction, that the light from a star such as the sun actually has a very very small force it can exert. We don't notice it on earth because of so many other factors, but in space there is enough solar light pressure to actually move objects. It is a gradual effect, but it builds up with time. Eventually a spacecraft can get moving pretty fast. There have already been designs of real solar sails that have been built by scientists around the world. Really!