A solar polar sail mission: Report of a study to put a scientific spacecraft in a circular polar orbit about the Sun

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3442, Issue , 1998, Pages 65-76

  Goldstein, Bruce E ^a   Buffington, Andrew ^b   Cummings, Alan C ^c   Fisher, Richard ^d   Jackson, Bernard V ^b   Liewer, Paulett C ^a   Mewaldt, Richard A ^c   Neugebauer, Marcia ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corona; Sail; Solar polar orbit; Solar sail; Solar wind; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETOMETERS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTROMETERS; SUN;

CIRCULAR POLAR ORBIT; EARTH-SUN SPACECRAFT; ENERGETIC PARTICLE TELESCOPE; PLASMA SPECTROMETER; SOLAR POLAR SAIL MISSION;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 0037621871     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.330265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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