Space aeronautics

David Jones

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6720, 570-570

Abstract: To propel itself forward, any spacecraft needs to fire something in the opposite direction. But Daedalus likes the idea of a motor that acts on the tenuous gas in space itself. So, he proposes to build a device based on the Crookes radiometer — the little ‘light mill’ in a glass bulb, which spins in sunlight.

Date: 1999
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