Interstellar heliopause probe: System design of a solar sail mission to 200 AU

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2447-2471

  Lappas, V ^a   Leipold, M ^b   Lyngvi, A ^c   Falkner, P ^c   Fichtner, H ^d   Kraft, S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e COSINE Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATION OF THE HELIOPAUSE; HELIOSPHERIC INTERFACE;

COSMIC RAYS; EARTH (PLANET); OPTIMIZATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 29744462647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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