AbstractThe recent findings of exoplanets have renewed interest in exploration missions of extra-solar star systems. In this context the binary star system of Alpha Centauri A/B plays a scientifically important role. The current paper aims at investigating the capture and the transfer trajectories from A to B performed by a stellar-photon sailcraft, which gives the best performance in long duration missions. The mission has been divided into four phases and minimum transfer time trajectories have been obtained by using a direct optimisation approach. Finally, a preliminary analysis in terms of Zero Velocity Curves has been carried out.


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    Titel :

    A star-photon sailcraft mission in the Alpha Centauri system


    Beteiligte:
    Pino, Tommaso (Autor:in) / Circi, Christian (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 59 , 9 ; 2389-2397


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017-02-07


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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