Optimal solar sail spiral to escape

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Sep 1977

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American Astronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Jack

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Escape Velocity, Interplanetary Trajectories, Solar Sails, Space Exploration, Trajectory Optimization, Computerized Simulation, Earth Orbits, Eccentricity, Graphs (Charts), Interplanetary Flight, Rendezvous Trajectories, Solar Orbits

Scientific paper

A solar sail is being considered for various solar system missions, such as a comet rendezvous and a planetary sample return. Such missions might include a planetocentric escape or capture trajectory segment. This paper considers a method for calculating time optimal planetocentric solar sail spiral trajectories to near escape and orbit to orbit transfers. A number of examples illustrate trajectories generated with a computer program, SUNSPOT, based on this analysis.

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