Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996cemda..63..255k&link_type=abstract
Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 63, Issue 3-4, pp. 255-269
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Solar Sail, Orbit-Rotation Coupling, Passive Radiative Orientation, Optimization
Scientific paper
A complete treatment of the general motion of rotation and translation of a solar-sail spacecraft is proposed for the non-flat sail of complex shape. The planar heliocentric roto-translatory motion is considered, orbit-rotational coupling in the problem of altitude and orbital sail motion is investigated for the two-folding sail formed by two unequal reflective rectangular plates oriented at a right angle. The problem of orbit-rotational coupling is essentially a planar one: both sail plates are orthogonal to the orbital plane. The possibility of the non-controlled interplanetary transfer with such two-folding sail at its passive radiational orientation is established analytically from point of view of orbit-rotational coupling. Optimal geometric proportions of this sail are found at minimum-time interplanetary transfers.
Kirpichnikov S. N.
Kirpichnikova E. S.
Polyakhova E. N.
Shmyrov A. S.
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