Database on space sails

Space sails are a continuum of lightweight, thin, large-area, deployable technologies which are pushing forward new frontiers in space mobility and exploration. They encompass solar sails, laser-driven sails, drag sails, magnetic sails, electric sails, deployable membrane reflectors, deployable membrane antennas, and solar power sails. This database contains values of important parameters from 220 different space sails, which have either flown in space or been proposed as mission concepts. The parameters are: the deployed sail area, the spacecraft's total mass, the total sail loading, the characteristic acceleration, the characteristic thrust, the sail's stowed volume, the sail packing efficiency, and the sail thickness. Assumptions and definitions used for each parameter are provided, along with links to the data sources.

太空帆是一系列轻质、薄型、大面积、可展开的技术，它们正在推动太空移动和探索的新领域。这些技术包括太阳帆、激光驱动帆、阻力帆、磁力帆、电力帆、可展开膜状反射器、可展开膜状天线以及太阳能帆。本数据库收录了220种不同太空帆的重要参数值，这些帆要么已在太空中飞行，要么作为任务概念被提出。参数包括：展开的帆面积、航天器的总质量、总帆载荷、特征加速度、特征推力、帆的折叠体积、帆的打包效率以及帆的厚度。每个参数所使用的假设和定义均提供，并附有数据来源链接。