Controlled Solar Sail Transfers into Near-Sun Regions Combined with Planetary Gravity-Assist Flybys

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May 2003

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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, v. 86, Issue 1, p. 59-80 (2003).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Results of numerical simulations of `local-optimal' (or `instantaneously optimal') trajectories of a space probe with a flat solar sail which moves from the circular Earth orbit to near-Sun regions are presented. We examine planar (ecliptic) solar sail transfer with gravity-assist flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury. Several complex control modes of the sail tilt orientation angle for near-Sun orbits and for some `falling onto the Sun' trajectories are investigated. The numerical simulations are used to examine the flight duration of some sail missions and to investigate the evolution of osculating elliptical orbits.

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