Solar sails to the solar system and beyond.

"This artist’s concept shows the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft sailing in space using the energy of the Sun. Credit: NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart" (ScitechDaily, Trouble Above Earth: NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail Grapples With Deployment Snag)

The solar sails are tools. That can make it possible to create fast. And maybe cheap ways to transit space around the solar system. The solar sails are the mylar sails that get their movement energy from the solar wind. The particle flow from the sun pushes solar sail forward. And that system is useful. At least for the operations that happen inside the asteroid belt. The large mylar structure can combine with radars and solar panels. 

The small solar panels can cover the mylar structure. And they can give power to the small probe. Developers can connect radars and laser communication tools to the solar sail technology. The solar-powered lasers can be in an "X"-shaped form in the mylar structure. And they can focus their beam into the middle of the sail. 

The military purposes. 

The next-generation electronic intelligence ELINT satellites san use solar-sail technology. The giant antennas that those high-orbiting or stationary satellites use can use solar-sail technology in their structures. Those satellites may be equipped with a laser communication tool, that transforms captured signal into laser rays. That allows us to keep the satellite mission secret. 

Those high-orbiting satellites might have things, like small rail guns to destroy incoming ASAT weapons. In some versions, the solar-sail technology is used in the giant mirrors that can reflect laser beams away from satellites. But the same mirrors can used to aim the large ground-based lasers at the right targets. The ground-based lasers can shoot laser beams through those mirrors. 

"NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System launched as a secondary payload aboard Rocket Lab’s ‘Beginning of the Swarm’ mission. The Solar Sail System will demonstrate the use of innovative materials and structures to deploy a next-generation solar sail from a microwave-sized CubeSat. Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails employ the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, eliminating the need for conventional rocket propellant. Credit: NASA" (ScitechDaily, Trouble Above Earth: NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail Grapples With Deployment Snag)

Project Orion and solar sails: The same technology fits many purposes. 

In the past, the USAF had a project called "Orion". The idea was to use nuclear bombs to transport spacecraft to Mars. The idea was this: the nuclear explosion behind the craft would push it into the transit trajectory to Mars and the far solar system. In the modified version the "Orion" craft uses the neutron bombs for thrust. 

However, there is a possibility that solar sails are used for interstellar flight. Or at least, flight to the outer solar system. In some versions, the giant lasers will give thrust for the solar sail outside the asteroid belt. In some other models, other rockets or solar sails send the hydrogen bombs at certain points of the solar sail trajectory. When the solar sail passes those targets, the hydrogen bomb explodes. And gives thrust to the solar sail. 

In some models, the ice asteroids are replacing those hydrogen bombs. And then the laser system sends a laser beam into those ice bites. That laser beam detonates the ice bite and then the vapor pushes the solar wind forward. 

The lasers that are used in that kind of mission are enormous. But it's possible. The laser system uses the hydrogen bomb as its energy source. The fusion bomb gives extremely powerful energy impulses to the laser element. The laser aims a powerful beam to the target. 

The solar sail could be a perfect structure for lasers that get their energy from annihilation. 

In some versions, the solar sail can use antimatter bombs to detonate objects behind it. The antimatter chamber is a tank where antimatter hovers in a vacuum in a magnetic field. The magnetic system keeps antiparticles away from the chamber wall. The solar sail can shoot those about bullet-sized chambers behind it. Then the chamber pulls antimatter particles to the chamber wall. That causes detonation behind the solar sail. 

In some other models, the solar sail-type structure can drive positrons and electrons in the middle of it. The system can create positrons from electron flow. And the antiparticle-particle annihilation pushes the sail forward. The solar sail structure acts as a heat control tool. The antimatter annihilation allows create of small and powerful lasers. 

The solar sail-type giant nets are planned to be used as bags for asteroids or space junk. The mylar bag closes the asteroid inside it. And then the small space shuttle transports it to a trajectory where the asteroid can benefit. The idea is that the giant mylar bag takes space junk inside it. Then the space junk will return to the ground. There are also plans. The military can close enemy satellites in the mylar bag and make them unable to operate. Then the system can pull them into the atmosphere. 

https://scitechdaily.com/trouble-above-earth-nasas-advanced-composite-solar-sail-grapples-with-deployment-snag/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)