Solar sailcraft of the first generation: Mission applications to near-Earth asteroids

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 3723-3733

  Dachwald, Bernd ^a   Seboldt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; PROPULSION SYSTEMS; SOLAR SAILCRAFT; SPACE SCIENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH SCIENCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; SUN; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 22344437629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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