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 (i.e., deployed area to stowed volume ratio), and the sail thickness. Detailed assumptions used for each parameter are provided in a paper under review by an academic journal (link to be provided after publication). It is noted that the values of parameters shown in this database have been collected from a range of different sources, and links to the relevant materials are provided in the above-mentioned journal article.