AbstractA preliminary investigation of the early warning of solar storms caused by Coronal Mass Ejection has been carried out. A long warning time could be obtained with a sailcraft synchronous with the Earth-Moon barycenter, and stationed well below the L1 point. In this paper, the theory of heliocentric synchronous sailcraft is set up, its perturbed orbit is analyzed, and a potential solution capable of providing an annual synchrony is carried out. A simple analysis of the response from a low-mass electrochromic actuator for the realization of station-keeping attitude maneuvers is put forwards, and an example of propellantless re-orientation maneuver is studied.

    HighlightsThis paper regards a solution to geomagnetic storms caused by Coronal Mass Ejection.An early-warning mission concept by photon sailcraft is introduced.The sailcraft is not constrained around the Sun-Earth L1 point.Heliocentric synchrony-on-average is computed via small attitude maneuvers.Sail maneuver propellantless electro-chromic devices are preliminarily investigated.


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    Title :

    Coronal Mass Ejection early-warning mission by solar-photon sailcraft


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 140 ; 113-125


    Publication date :

    2017-07-28


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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