Solar sail orbits at artificial sun-Earth libration points

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1328-1331

  Baoyin, Hexi ^a,b   McInnes, Colin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; STABILITY;

PERIODIC ORBITS; SAIL ATTITUDE; THREE-BODY SYSTEM;

ORBITS;

EID: 28444473131     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.14598     Document Type: Article

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