hybrid solar sail propulsion
Non-Keplerian orbits using hybrid solar sail propulsion for Earth applications
... of hybrid propulsion, ...the solar arrays and a slightly smaller sail size since the sail area does not include the area of the thin film solar ...film solar cells since ...
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A near term pole-sitter using hybrid solar sail propulsion
... (3) can be integrated to find the mass change. With this new value of mass, the procedure iterates on the next point on the orbit. The subsequent optimal control problem finds the orbit r t and the control history ...
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Designing displaced lunar orbits using low-thrust propulsion
... This paper investigates displaced periodic orbits at linear order in the circular restricted Earth-Moon system, where the third massless body utilizes a hybrid of solar sail and a solar ...
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Analytical, circle-to-circle low-thrust transfer trajectories with plane change
... a hybrid constant acceleration (of 0.1 mm s -2 ) electric propulsion and solar sail (characteristic accelerations of ...square sail side length of approximately 105 m) propelled to a ...
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Displaced periodic orbits with low-thrust propulsion
... and solar electric technology provide alternative forms of space- craft ...These propulsion systems can enable exciting new space-science mission concepts such as solar system exploration and deep ...
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Low-thrust enabled highly non-Keplerian orbits in support of future Mars exploration
... and solar sail low thrust propulsion systems have their own advantages and ...disadvantages. Solar sailing has the advantage that it requires no propellant, and thus can maintain continuous ...
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Displaced geostationary orbit design using hybrid sail propulsion
... chemical propulsion system, the performance of impulsive control was found to be very ...a solar sail to the SEP system, thereby creating hybrid sail control, the demand on the SEP ...
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Hybrid solar sail and SEP propulsion for novel Earth observation missions
... hybridising solar electric propulsion (SEP) and solar ...a hybrid propulsion spacecraft is attractive: by combining the two forms of propulsion, the drawbacks of the two systems ...
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Solar sail mission applications and future advancement
... the solar sail development roadmap the AD2 level must be ...considering solar sailing as a primary propulsion source an extension of the use of solar sailing as an attitude control ...
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Hybrid solar sail and SEP propulsion for novel Earth observation missions
... and hybrid sails in terms of spacecraft mass ...the hybrid sail and pure SEP performance, a feedback control system will be designed to keep the spacecraft on track when subject to injection error, ...
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Optimal solar sail interplanetary heteroclinic transfers for novel space applications
... The solar sail dedicated set in ...for solar sail departure and arrival sets, from and to selected periodic orbits, ...the solar sail acceleration can be incorporated in a ...
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Solar sail capture trajectories at Mercury
... of sail characteristic accelerations, at 1AU, up to 1 mm s -2 ...the sail colliding with Mercury on completion of the first ...a sail passing through the capture plane at zero inclination, ...the ...
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Periodic orbits high above the ecliptic plane in the solar sail 3-body problem
... Solar Sails 3 Body Equations and Equilibria Periodic Solutions Outline 1 Solar Sails Sail design 2 3 Body Equations and Equilibria Classical equilibria - the Lagrange points Sail equilib[r] ...
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Approximate closed-form solution for solar sail spiral trajectories with sail degradation
... the solar sail to an annulus, whose inner and outer radii are defined by the sail degradation ...the solar sail where the sail becomes completely absorbing, the transverse ...
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Design and applications of solar sail periodic orbits in the non-autonomous Earth-Moon system
... the solar sail eight-shaped orbit constellation requires fewer satellites to establish a continuous view, while it requires more satellites than the single South Pole-sitter sailcraft proposed in ...the ...
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Optical solar sail degradation modelling
... Solar Sail Force Models Overview Different levels of simplification for the optical characteristics of a solar sail result in different models for the magnitude and direction of the SRP [r] ...
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Optimisation of solar sail interplanetary heteroclinic connections
... authority solar sails that can change their attitude only to a limited ...as solar sails and with low production costs and low mass they enable a range of new space applications [14], but will have limited ...
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Displaced solar sail orbits : Dynamics and applications
... a sail can be used as a communication satellite for high ...the sail can be displaced above the orbital plane of the Earth, so that the sail can stay fixed above the Earth at some distance, if the ...
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Solar sail heliocentric Earth-following orbits
... to solar radiation pressure on a solar sail can also be used to create an artificially precessing ...a solar sail to rotate an elliptic geocentric orbit in the ecliptic plane such that ...
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Displaced solar sail orbits : dynamics and applications
... concerned with the motion of a hybrid sail that has negligible mass. It is always assumed that the two more massive bodies are moving in circular orbits with constant angular velocity ω about their common ...
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