Solar Polar Orbiter: A solar sail Technology Reference Study

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 960-972

  Macdonald, Malcolm ^a,d,e   Hughes, Gareth W ^a,d   McInnes, Colin R ^b,d,f   Lyngvi, Aleksander ^c   Falkner, Peter ^c   Atzei, Alessandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e SCISYS Deutschland GmbH   (United Kingdom)

^f AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAUNCHING; ORBITS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; THIN FILMS;

ORBIT INCLINATION; SOLAR EQUATOR; SOLAR POLAR ORBITER MISSION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33750516896     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.16408     Document Type: Article

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