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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    Titel :

    Optimal solar sail spiral to escape


    Beteiligte:
    Sackett, L. L. (Autor:in) / Edelbaum, T. N. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Astrodynamics Specialist Conference


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1977-09-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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