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English: A plasma wind of energetic particles from the Sun's corona encounter the magnetic field of a magnetic sail spacecraft and form an artificial magnetosphere with a bow shock facing the sun that deflects the particles and imparts thrust to the spacecraft.
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Magnetic sail overview

31 August 2022

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