Payload mass fraction optimization for solar sail cargo missions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 933-935

  McInnes, Colin R ^a   Hughes, Gareth ^a   Macdonald, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; PLANETS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TRAJECTORIES;

LOW EARTH ORBIT; PAYLOAD MASS FRACTION OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR SAIL; SOLAR SAIL CARGO MISSIONS;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0036872292     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3901     Document Type: Article

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