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Last Global Change 2002/02/10
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Overview Information
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Project Description
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SailAway is a project meant to provide a good solar sail structure and
flight simulator that can accurately account for orbit perturbations
and structural details of the sail itself on flights through the inner
solar system.
The application is organized as a collection of smaller applications
performing specific duties ranging from physical simulation, user
interfacing, and library storage of the results produced.
The open nature of the project and the storage libraries will support
academic researchers and flight planners in efforts to study solar sail
missions while reducing duplication of effort and the costs associated
with flight analysis tools.
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Application Architecture and Planning Documentation
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All Project files are in the
CVS repository.
Browse through them or check out a working copy if you know how to use
CVS. We will be using mailing lists and the IRC channel [#sailaway] on
irc.openprojects.net to discuss ideas to be placed in these documents.
Published documentation can be found in the
Doc Manager
within the project. Documentation that does not face the user directly
may be found within the repository mostly under the docs directory.
Once a group of documents has reached a moderately evolved state, they
will be released using the same
file release
feature a project such as
ours uses to release the actual software and source code.
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Source and Documentation
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SailAway Source and Documentation tarball
Last Update: daily (automated)
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A SailAway CVS tar ball
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Related Information and Sites
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Solar Sailing information to provide context
Last Update: 2002/02/10
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Benjamin Diedrich's Solar Sail Page
Union for the Promotion of Photonic Propulsion (U3P)
DLR Solar Sail Page
Some project related wire frame models just for fun
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Solar Sailing papers and presentations by team members...
Last Update: 2002/01/11
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IWT SailAway Presentation material - Dr Alfred Differ
SFC 8 NEO Presentation material - Dr Alfred Differ
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Clifford algebra information to help out...
Last Update: 2000/03/17
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The Clifford Algebra Society
The Cambridge Geometric Algebra Research Group
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Project News
Project Code planned to split.
2002/01/10
SailAway - Documentation
2000/12/20
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