Wiktionary
n. (solar sail English)
Usage examples of "solar sails".
Stripped of its solar sails and antennae, it was the uniform ruddy color chosen to maximize its thermal balance during the years in flight from Earth orbit.
Most of them were driven by solar sails, filmy and beautiful, wispy shapes that tacked against Mercury&rsquo.
The solar sails unfurl like the wings of a swan, and I boost and turn myself, back to the solar wind that feels more like a gale.
Except once you get beyond a certain size, solar sails are all different.
Peter Vajk, who presented in well-thought-out detail his concept of missions with live, human crews using solar sails.
Made no nevermind that through near nine years under solar sails spread round The Ship like petals of a great lily to gather the solar winds, that fuel somehow had changed.
I'm pretty sure we can get the waterjet back in operation, though, and at least one of the solar sails.
It was so violent that Daniel had shut down the foils, furled the solar sails, and ridden the waves for an hour and a half on waterjet alone.
A lonely, mysterious outlaw, Captain Black Ransome, flying the Halo in a creaking, battered ship, solar sails tattered and decaying.
The organization's scientists had debated many ways to deflect an incoming threat, including solar sails or nuclear weapons.