The new solar sail technology can help us to travel in the solar system.

"An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit as the Sun crests Earth’s horizon. Credit: NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart" (ScitechDaily, Liftoff! NASA’s Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Launched)

Solar sails are a very interesting tool. Those systems are sails that use solar wind or the particle flow from the sun to travel in the solar system. The solar sail itself is a large mylar structure. The solar sail can installed in small-size space shuttles. Large, lightweight solar sail can used to transport spacecraft to the asteroid belt. 

There the shuttle can take the samples, and then it can return home. The solar sail saves fuel on that journey. The stars are too distant for that system, but the solar system might be open to those large-size mylar sails. The solar sail can also act as a large-size radio antenna. So solar sail technology can used to create large-scale radars. That can operate at a long distance from the Earth. 

The solar sail can pull the small space shuttle to the asteroid belt. And that shuttle can use antimatter-cathode engines to return to Earth. 

The solar sail can be the platform for things like large radio telescopes. That will travel to the sun-orbiting trajectory beyond Mars, or even beyond Jupiter's trajectory. The solar sail can integrated with advanced radar technology. In that case, the solar sail is a combination of radar radio telescope, and radio communication tools. The lightweight solar panels can also installed into the solar sails. 

In some visions, the lightweight solar panel system can used as a power source for antimatter-cathode engines. Those engines can used in small, unmanned shuttles that can bring samples from distant objects. 

The antimatter cathode engines are the systems that annihilate electrons and positrons. The cathode accelerators are in that solar sail. And they combine their electron rays in the middle of that system. The system drives some of those electron beams through a thin gold layer that turns those electrons into positrons. The system annihilates them in the reaction chamber. 

The antimatter system can make the pulsed plasma engine true. 

The antimatter engine can use the particles from the electron-positron annihilation directly. The system can use antimatter can be used to create plasma that is used in the plasma-ion or pulsed plasma engines. The pulsed plasma engine uses free plasma to create the thrust. And the plasma-ion engine accelerates that plasma with particle accelerators. 

The antimatter-cathode annihilation that annihilates electrons and positrons offers a lightweight power source for the lightweight, and effective power systems. The positron beams can also used to create plasma in the reaction chamber. The system can turn any material into plasma. That can drive the spacecraft ahead. 

The antimatter system can create extremely high temperatures without nuclear reactors. If it can use some other power source. The solar panels can give power to particle accelerators. However, the system can collect anti-electrons or positrons from the solar wind. The antimatter systems can also give energy to high-power laser systems, that can used as communication or defense applications. The antimatter annihilation makes the bright flash that the laser can use to create the laser beam. 

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