Updates to Solarsails.info

Added February 25, 2005

• The Web -> Magnetic, Plasma, and Other Sails section now has a link to a NASA supported independant study of the physics of plasma sails.

Added January 5, 2005

• The Web -> Documents section now has a link to the September, 2004, Solar Sail Technology and Applications Conference agenda.

Added November 5, 2004

• Dr. Colin R. McInnes has moved from the University of Glasgow to the University of Strathclyde. I have updated his entry to reflect this in the People page.

Added August 30th, 2004

• I added a link to Chauncey Uphoff's paper "Very Fast Solar Sails" to the Web -> Documents -> Sail Design and Architecture section. Just below this, I added a link to K. Eric Drexler's listing in the "Solar Sailors" page.
• I did a little cleanup of some of the pages in the Design section.

Added August 25th, 2004

• I have added Berd Dachwald's website Spacesailing.net to the Web -> Documents and Web -> Research sections of my web page.

Added June 17th, 2004

• I have added my name and the creation date of all higher resolution images on this website that I created.

Added May 5th, 2004

• I updated Manfred Leipold's entry on the Solar Sailors page to reflect his current employment with Kayser-Threde.

Added January 14th, 2004

• I added an Art, Entertainment, and Miscellaneous section to the Web Links page. Included are links to some artists galleries that include solar sail images, and a solar sail haiku.

Added January 9th, 2004

• I have added a link to a Roleplayer article on magnetic sails to the section Web Links -> Magnetic, Plasma, and Other Space Sails.
• I updated the link on the News page to the article Scientific American: Light Sails to Orbit which had changed on the Scientific American website.
• Fixed the section name Magnetic, Plasma, and Other Space Sails, which I had changed at the top of the page, but not in the body.

Added December 17th, 2003

• I have added a link to Hbar Technologies Antimatter Sail Concept to the section Web Links -> Magnetic, Plasma, and Other Space Sails. Originally, this section was called "Magnetic and Plasma Sails."

Added October 31st, 2003

• I have added a link to the paper "Multi-Bounce Laser-Based Sails" by Robert A. Metzger and Geoffrey A. Landis to the section Web Links -> Documents -> Dynamics and Mission Concepts.
• I have added links that search Google and Yahoo! for news stories on solar sails to the section News on Solar Sails.

Added August 19th, 2003

• I have added a link to Robert van der Walle's page on applying the Kiura-Ori folding technique to ring-shaped sails to the Web Links -> General Information section.

Added August 4th, 2003

• I have added Alan C. Elms essay Solar Sails in Science Fiction to the Web Links -> General Information section and the Bibliography.
• I have added a link to a technical report by ABLE Engineering on solar sail design to the Web Links -> Documents -> Sail Design and Architecture section.

Added July 29th, 2003

• Solarsails.info is released. I've made a number of changes, refinements, and additions to my original site. The look is unchanged. I might not win any web awards, but anybody should find the site accessible.