The solar sail is large and highly flexible, and its motion involves a coupling of the orbit, the attitude and structural vibration. This paper establishes the reduced dynamic model for a flexible solar sail with foreshortening deformation and coupling of its attitude and vibration. In the process of attitude control with the large-angle maneuvers, large orbital deviations and structural vibrations are generated. When initial deviations and solar pressure disturbance torques are considered, the process of attitude control leads to greater accumulated error in the transfer trajectory, which demonstrates that the process of attitude control is important to the solar sail mission.
Influence of Attitude Control on Orbital Plane Change for Flexible Solar Sail
Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)
04.02.2014
20 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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