Animations, computer images, reports, ... The Solar Sail Channel is the first video channel dedicated to solar sails !

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Program :


Solar Sail - New U3P concept - 2004

Images of the new U3P concept of Solar Sail.
Images de synthèse U3P / O.Boisard.
Taille : 1 Mo - Durée 40s


Solar sails ...

New concepts of solar sails ...
Computer simulations O.Boisard/u3p.
Size : 7,2 Mo - Duration :2 mn22


Emission scientifique Icare, sur Itélé - Canal +

Solar sails and origami, report by Raphaël Hitier - January 2004.
Computer simulations O.Boisard/u3p.
Size : 7,2 Mo - Duration : 3mn 50


EUROPE 1 - Interview

Emission sicentifique - Alain Cirou - 4 jénvier 2004
Interview de Olivier Boisard - Pésident de l'U3P
22 minutes


A suivre ...

Realization : Olivier Boisard - 1999
Concepts of sails. Synthetic or real images ? We don't know yet.
Size : 7,1 Mo - Duration : 1 mn 21 s - Images from the movie.


Team Encounter

Réalization : Team Encounter
About the American project Team Encounter.
Size: 5 Mo - Duration : 1 mn 07 s - to the website of Team Encounter


Cosmos project : simulation - test deployment (1) , (2)

Copyright : Planetary Society, Cosmos Studios, and Babakine Space Center.


ODISSEE Project - Deployment test

Copyright : Copyright DLR, ESA/ESTEC & INVENT 2001


Experimental proof of the photonic propulsion

Copyright : Carole Bardou - 2001
The radiometer turns when the light in on, but this phenomenon has nothing to do with the photonic propulsion ... This is not the case with the Crookes' tube, in which we can demonstrate the effect of light pressure. An experiment realized, and commented (in French) by Carole Bardou.

Size : 12 Mo - Duration 6 mn 21 s

Deployment simulation- 1991

Realization images et music :Olivier Boisard - 1991
Computer based simulation of the U3P sail deployment, according to the MPPP concept.
Size : 1,8 Mo - Duraion : 25 s - More about the sail folding ...


Deployment in zero g- Sequence (1) - sequence (2)

Realization : Guy Pignolet - 1991
In 1991, the deployment of a sail was tested by U3P in weightlessness, during a balistic flight in the CNES' Caravelle ...
Sequence 1 : Size : 4,2 Mo - Duration : 35 s - Sequence 2: Size : 2,3 Mo - Duration : 37 s


Quelques images en perspective ...

Realization images et musique : Olivier Boisard - 1999
Solar mirrors, geant sails ... Computer based images.
Size : 9,5Mo - Duration : 1 mn 30 s - images from the movie.


The Znamia 2 flight in 93 - Sequences (1) - (2) - (3) - (4) - (5)

Realization : Guy Pignolet - 1993 - images U3P/Tsoup/Space Regatta Consortium
In February 1993, the solar mirror ZNAMIA is deployed in space, as a prefiguration of solar sails ...
Sizes : 1,9; 1,8; 1,9; 1,7; 1,3 Mo - Durations : 20; 17; 18; 17; 10 s - images from the movie.


U3P 2001 - Sequences (1) - (2) - (3) - (4)

Realization : Olivier Boisard - 2001 / images Boisard - Limantour - U3P - Cnes - Nasa - SRC
For the 20 th anniversary of the U3P (1981-2001), a short history of solar sails, with special thanks to Kubrick and Clarke for 2001...
Sizes : 10,9; 12,6; 2,88; 6,1 Mo - Durations : 5 mn 30 s; 5 mn 32 s ; 1 mn 29 s ; 2 mn 40 s.


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