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Electric Solar Wind Sail EU FP7 project

   
 

ESAIL EU FP7 project

   
   

 

 

 

The electric solar wind sail, or electric sail for short, is a propulsion invention made in 2006 at the Kumpula Space Centre. This website is for the EU FP7 project, which developed the E-sail towards prototype phase. See also the electric sailing science and technology pages.

The three-year ESAIL project reached its goals and ended according to originally planned schedule on Nov 30, 2013. All deliverables and reports are available under Documents and scientific publications are available under the E-sail list of publications.

Esail

 

Participating organizations on the project are:

Participant no. *

Participant organisation name

Participant short name

Country

1 (Coordinator)

Finnish Meteorological Institute

FMI

Finland

2

University of Helsinki

UH

Finland

3

University of Jyväskylä

UJ

Finland

4

German Aerospace Center

DLR

Germany

5

Ångström Space Technology Centre

ÅSTC

Sweden

6

Nanospace AB

Nanospace

Sweden

7

Tartu Observatory

Tartu

Estonia

8

University of Pisa

Pisa

Italy

9

Alta S.p.A.

Alta

Italy