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John Carlos Baez

@LiberalEd - the pressure of the solar wind near Earth's orbit is usually about 6 ×10⁻⁹ newtons/square meter, where a newton is enough force to accelerate a gram at one meter/second². This is not much. The Lisa Pathfinder satellite was a test of concept satellite with micronewton thrusters and a mass floating inside it; it worked fine.

There's a lot of material on it in the references here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pat

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@johncarlosbaez
I should have known/thought to check Wiki. Thanks again.

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