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by Denvercoder9 1876 days ago
> once you've negated the delta-v

My point is that you can't cancel out the velocity of your orbit around the sun using solar sails.

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So if you had the sail at a 45 degree angle to the sun, bouncing the photons forward to your orbit, wouldn't that eventually slow you down? Or do you get pushed outward into a slower orbit at the same time and cancel it out?

It's all a moot point anyway since solar sails are so ridiculously impractical that this would basically never work in real life regardless.