Aurora project: a new sail layout

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-146

  Genta, Giancarlo ^a   Brusa, Eugenio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; ELASTICITY; INFLATABLE STRUCTURES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SUN; TRAJECTORIES;

AURORA SPACECRAFT; ELASTIC STABILITY; SOLAR SAIL;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032666587     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(99)00040-5     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. G. Vulpetti Sailcraft at High Speed Orbital Angular Momentum Reversal submitted to Acta Astronautica, Sept. 1995.
2. G. Vulpetti 3D high-speed heliocentric trajectories by all-metallic sail low-mass sailcraft Paper IAA-L-0505 II IAA Conference on Low-cost Planetary Missions, Lauren (USA), 16-19/04/1996.
3. G. Vulpetti, The Aurora project : Flight design of a technology demonstration mission, I IAA Symposium on Realistic Near Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions, Torino, June 1996.
4. G. Mocci, The Aurora project: Analysis of impact of the communication requirements on the mission proficiency, I IAA Symposium on Realistic Near Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions, Torino, June 1996.
5. S. Santoli, S. Scaglione, Project Aurora: A preliminary study of a light whole-metal solar sail, I IAA Symposium on Realistic Near Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions, Torino, June 1996.
6. G. Genta, E. Brusa, Project Aurora: Preliminary structural definition of the spacecraft, I IAA Symposium on Realistic Near Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions, Torino, June 1996.
7. G. Vulpetti, A sailing mode in space: 3D fast trajectories by orbital angular-momentum reversal, NASA-JPL Ninth Advanced Space Propulsion Research Workshop and Conference, Pasadena, March 11-13, 1998.
8. G. Genta, E. Brusa, The parachute sail with hydrostaic beam: A new concept for solar sailing, II IAA Symp. on Near-term Advanced Space Missions,
9. B. N. Cassenti, G.L. Matloff, J. Strobl The structural response and stability of interstellar solar sails, J. of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 49, 1996, pp. 345-350.