Solar sail

Solar sail - type of spacecraft propulsion that takes advantage of solar radiation. Article “Solar sail” in English Wikipedia has 92.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 151 references and 51 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Solar sail” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Solar sail”, its content was written by 484 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 578 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2535 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #406 in June 2005
• Global: #924 in June 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34907 in May 2015
• Global: #33251 in February 2010

There are 38 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	Catalan (ca) Vela solar		96.9231
2	English (en) Solar sail		92.6161
3	Spanish (es) Vela solar		81.0755
4	German (de) Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)		65.1655
5	Croatian (hr) Sunčeva jedrilica		54.5624
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Sunčeva jedrilica		48.0146
7	Ukrainian (uk) Сонячне вітрило		41.1274
8	Simple English (simple) Solar sail		39.7875
9	Hebrew (he) מפרש שמש		38.9732
10	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		37.8496

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar sail		2 702 420
2	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		474 902
3	Japanese (ja) 太陽帆		372 636
4	French (fr) Voile solaire		237 235
5	Spanish (es) Vela solar		227 268
6	German (de) Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)		168 243
7	Chinese (zh) 太阳帆		120 194
8	Italian (it) Vela solare		118 680
9	Polish (pl) Żagiel słoneczny		116 167
10	Portuguese (pt) Vela solar		47 513

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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 "Solar sail" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar sail		8 628
2	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		1 396
3	Japanese (ja) 太陽帆		808
4	Chinese (zh) 太阳帆		731
5	German (de) Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)		586
6	Simple English (simple) Solar sail		533
7	French (fr) Voile solaire		485
8	Spanish (es) Vela solar		386
9	Polish (pl) Żagiel słoneczny		234
10	Italian (it) Vela solare		175

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

Language versions of the article "Solar 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) Solar sail		484
2	German (de) Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)		134
3	French (fr) Voile solaire		113
4	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		69
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽帆		64
6	Italian (it) Vela solare		58
7	Spanish (es) Vela solar		45
8	Hebrew (he) מפרש שמש		42
9	Dutch (nl) Lichtzeil		36
10	Polish (pl) Żagiel słoneczny		30

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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 "Solar sail" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Solar sail		3
2	Romanian (ro) Velă solară		2
3	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		1
4	Arabic (ar) شراع شمسي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) İşıq sütunları ( Günəş sütunları )		0
6	Catalan (ca) Vela solar		0
7	Czech (cs) Sluneční plachetnice		0
8	German (de) Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)		0
9	Spanish (es) Vela solar		0
10	Estonian (et) Päikesepuri		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 "Solar sail" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Solar sail		578
2	Persian (fa) بادبان خورشیدی		285
3	Chinese (zh) 太阳帆		266
4	Italian (it) Vela solare		166
5	French (fr) Voile solaire		165
6	Japanese (ja) 太陽帆		135
7	Swedish (sv) Solsegel		101
8	Spanish (es) Vela solar		87
9	Portuguese (pt) Vela solar		84
10	Russian (ru) Солнечный парус		73

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شراع شمسي
az	Azerbaijani İşıq sütunları ( Günəş sütunları )
ca	Catalan Vela solar
cs	Czech Sluneční plachetnice
de	German Sonnensegel (Raumfahrt)
en	English Solar sail
es	Spanish Vela solar
et	Estonian Päikesepuri
eu	Basque Eguzki-bela
fa	Persian بادبان خورشیدی
fi	Finnish Aurinkopurje
fr	French Voile solaire
he	Hebrew מפרש שמש
hi	Hindi सौर पाल
hr	Croatian Sunčeva jedrilica
hu	Hungarian Napvitorlás
hy	Armenian Արևային առագաստ
id	Indonesian Layar surya
it	Italian Vela solare
ja	Japanese 太陽帆
ko	Korean 태양광 돛단배
ms	Malay Layar suria
nl	Dutch Lichtzeil
no	Norwegian Solseil
pl	Polish Żagiel słoneczny
pt	Portuguese Vela solar
ro	Romanian Velă solară
ru	Russian Солнечный парус
sh	Serbo-Croatian Sunčeva jedrilica
simple	Simple English Solar sail
sk	Slovak Slnečná plachetnica
sl	Slovenian Solarno jadro
sr	Serbian Соларни једрењак
sv	Swedish Solsegel
th	Thai ใบเรือสุริยะ
tr	Turkish Uzay yelkenlileri
uk	Ukrainian Сонячне вітрило
zh	Chinese 太阳帆

Best Rank

English: #34907 05.2015

Global: #33251 02.2010

Best Rank

English: #406 06.2005

Global: #924 06.2005

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