Solar sails - An innovative and enabling technology for gossamer space structures

54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1153-1160

  Groepper, P ^a   Burger, F ^a   Lascar, S ^a   Niederstadt, T ^b   Sickinger, C ^b   Bachern, E ^b   Leipold, M ^c   Wulf, E ^c   Unckenbold, W ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^d INVENT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GOSSAMER SPACE STRUCTURES; PROPULSION EFFICIENY; SOLAR SAILS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS (TFSC);

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 22144459418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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