Payload mass fractions for minimum-time trajectories of flat and compound solar sails

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1076-1078

  McInnes, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; MIRRORS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PRESSURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY;

COMPOUND SOLAR SAIL; FLAT SOLAR SAIL; HELIOCENTRIC ORBIT; MINIMUM TIME TRAJECTORIES; PAYLOAD MASS FRACTION; PONTRYAGIN PRINCIPLE;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0034316045     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4651     Document Type: Article

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