Electric sail

Electric sail - proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the solar wind as a source of thrust. Article “Electric sail” in English Wikipedia has 50.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Electric sail”, its content was written by 70 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 97 times in English Wikipedia and cited 197 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #70620 in January 2021
• Global: #20611 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #370624 in April 2016
• Global: #105237 in May 2013

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Electric sail		50.3993
2	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		34.4724
3	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		34.4387
4	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		31.8734
5	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		25.847
6	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		25.8169
7	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		24.0331
8	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		24.0293
9	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		16.2057
10	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		15.7048

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Electric sail" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric sail		186 609
2	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		94 279
3	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		22 242
4	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		7 603
5	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		4 850
6	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		4 431
7	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		1 975
8	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		1 355
9	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		376
10	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		285

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Electric sail" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric sail		987
2	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		169
3	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		46
4	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		44
5	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		29
6	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		29
7	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		28
8	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		6
9	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		6
10	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Electric sail" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electric sail		70
2	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		22
3	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		16
4	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		13
5	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		8
6	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		6
7	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		6
8	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		5
9	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		3
10	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Electric sail" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		0
2	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		0
3	English (en) Electric sail		0
4	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		0
5	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		0
6	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		0
7	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		0
8	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		0
10	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Electric sail" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Electric sail		97
2	Chinese (zh) 電動帆		26
3	Ukrainian (uk) Електричне вітрило		25
4	Finnish (fi) Sähköpurje		18
5	Russian (ru) Электрический парус		13
6	Estonian (et) Elektriline päikesepuri		9
7	Spanish (es) Vela eléctrica		7
8	Czech (cs) Elektrická plachetnice		1
9	Italian (it) Vela elettrica		1
10	Arabic (ar) شراع كهربائي		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شراع كهربائي
cs	Czech Elektrická plachetnice
en	English Electric sail
es	Spanish Vela eléctrica
et	Estonian Elektriline päikesepuri
fi	Finnish Sähköpurje
it	Italian Vela elettrica
ru	Russian Электрический парус
uk	Ukrainian Електричне вітрило
zh	Chinese 電動帆

Best Rank

English: #370624 04.2016

Global: #105237 05.2013

Best Rank

English: #70620 01.2021

Global: #20611 05.2013

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