Progress and plans for system demonstration of a scalable square solar sail

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 119, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 51-68

  Murphy, David ^a   Trautt, T ^a   McEachen, M ^a   Eskenazi, M ^a   Messner, D ^a   Laue, G ^b   Gierow, P ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b ManTech International Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAIL TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR PROPULSION; SOLAR SAIL; SYSTEM CONFIGURATION; IN-SPACE PROPULSION (ISP); SAIL ENGINEERING; SAIL MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR SAILS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; ACTUATORS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; PLANNING; POLYIMIDES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 23844459566     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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