Question

NASA needs a solar sail for 3-unitCubeSat that will study near-Earth Asteroids. A CubeSat and Sails can weigh between 4-15-kg. This craft is supposed to sail for 2-3 years taking pictures of near-earth asteroids. It doesn’t need to travel fast but about 10-20 m/s. The sails are deployable for a set amount of time that you can arrange. The intensity of the sun is about 1.3 kW/m². You are to design the sail, you can choose the metallic coating, the shape of the sails and the dimensions to construct it. Recall that there is a reflection coefficient in radiation pressure, 1 for full absorption and 2 for full reflection.

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