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Solar sails and nanotechnology would allow making revolutionary probes.

Solar sails and nanotechnology would allow making revolutionary probes.

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Solar sails can also operate in the journeys inside the solar system

Solar sails are an interesting idea for the interstellar spacecraft, and if we would use the flexible materials, we might think that the solar sail would be opened at the space like the giant parachute. One of the best materials for this kind of giant solar sails would be mylar, which would be covered by the very thin silver layer, what will make the layer thin, and that denies the ions and gas atoms pass the layer. This makes it more effective.

In fact, solar sails would be effective also in the shorter space trips, where small-sized probes would send to search the gas planets like Uranus and Neptune. The probes what would search the solar system might also use the solar sails, and the extreme large mylar sails might work also like the giant antennas, what would allow the probe to communicate with Earth station from the far distances.

And the giant mylar square can also operate as the radio telescope for the hand lotion can size small probe, what operates in the Kuiper belt. In this case, the probe would record the signals, what is coming from the space, and then it can send them to Earth. During the recording, the probe would be silent, because the other radio transmitting would disturb the signals, what is coming from the distance. The camera can be miniaturized and it might use the small size optics, and the image recognition program will make the usage of that thing more effective.

New probes are very sophisticated 

The probe might be far more sophisticated than some Voyager can ever be. That means it would have sophisticated artificial intelligence, which allows using the systems more effectively than Voyager can use them. The temperature in the Kuiper belt is near zero Kelvin, which makes the computer of that thing more effective than they would be on Earth. Those systems can locate interesting targets independently, and then send the images to Earth, and that giant radio antenna can be used also as the radar, what can be used to make maps and search the objects in the distance. Radars can also see objects, what are hidden under the ice, and that might uncover the secrets of the icy objects.

The mylar is the material, which allows creating very light and large surfaces. The idea of the solar sail is to create a large layer, what will use as the sail, which would allow the spacecraft to leave from the solar system by using solar wind as the accelerator. Squat of this layer or giant sail would be the only couple of atoms or nanometers. The ionized particles, what are coming from the sun can also give energy for that system, where can be even kilometers large, very thin sail, what is made by mylar.

Mylar would allow creating lightweight, but very large layers

The sail can be packed to the capsule, and when the probe is in the space the giant sail would open when the probe would leave the Earth orbiter. That means that those solar sails can shoot to space by using conventional rockets. One of the greatest problems with this sail is that when it would pass the asteroid belt, there could be the holes. The large solar sail can be connected to the nanotechnology, which makes the instrument section very small.

The spacecraft or probe where the instruments are might be made by using the integrated circuit technology, and the size of that probe might be like tin. When we are thinking the use of the solar sails in the probes, what is moving in the solar system, that thing can be very useful for making the time of journey to the gas planets like Uranus and Neptune shorter.

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