Solar sail halo orbits. I - Heliocentric case. II - Geocentric case

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Aug 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jspro..29..466m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (ISSN 0022-4650), vol. 29, no. 4, p. 466-479.

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Geocentric Coordinates, Orbit Perturbation, Solar Orbits, Solar Sails, Spacecraft Trajectories, Angular Velocity, Halos, Interplanetary Spacecraft, Trajectory Optimization

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In the first part of this work on high-performance solar sails (SSs), heliocentric-orbiting SS dynamics are investigated within a corotating reference frame (with arbitrary angular velocity) within which stationary solutions out of the ecliptic plane are found. The period of these 'halo-type' sun-centered orbits may be chosen to minimize sail performance requirements. Complex trajectories are obtainable by the joining of several halo orbits. In the second part, attention is given to the equations of motion of a geocentric-orbiting SS in a corotating reference frame corresponding to earth-centered halo-type orbits when viewed from an inertial reference frame; from the joining of these, also, complex trajectories may be formed.

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