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Light-levitated geostationary cylindrical orbits using perforated light sails

Forward, 1984

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Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

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BACKGROUND This paper is an extension of a previous paper with a similar title 1 that first proposed the light-levitated cylindrical orbit concept. The maximum amount of north-south distance obtained in that paper was limited to a few thousand kilometers by the assumed …
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