The deployment stability of the spinning solar sail spacecraft has been discussed in this paper. First, two-step deployment method is discussed. To get the solar sail model in every deployment stage, we study a three-dimensional reduced model including a rigid body and four cables with corner masses, consider the cables noncoplanar and the mass of the cables and derive the analytical model. After that, the characteristics of every stage are analysed. Finally, with the given controller, we study the deployment stability of the system and discuss how to keep the successful deployment with small pitch angle and none re-wrapping.


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    Title :

    Dynamical Analysis of the Deployment for a Reduced Spinning Solar Sail Model


    Additional title:

    Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)


    Contributors:
    Macdonald, Malcolm (editor) / Wei, Yiheng (author) / Zhu, Min (author) / Peng, Cheng (author) / Wang, Yong (author)


    Publication date :

    2014-02-04


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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