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☀️ Solar Sail Orbit (2D)

Top-down 2D simulation of a solar sail spacecraft driven by real photon radiation pressure: inverse-square intensity falloff, cos-squared pitch-angle thrust, and RK4 orbital integration around the Sun.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

A top-down 2D simulation of a solar sail spacecraft driven by real photon radiation pressure. Solar intensity falls off with the inverse square of distance from the Sun, and sail thrust scales with the cosine squared of the pitch angle, integrated with RK4 to trace a genuine spiral orbit away from (or into) the Sun.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install