Refined solar sail force model with mission application

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 512-520

  Mengali, Giovanni ^a,d,e   Quarta, Alessandro A ^a,d,e   Circi, Christian ^b,d   Dachwald, Bernd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Italy)

^e AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; FORCE COEFFICIENTS; MISSION APPLICATION; SOLAR SAIL;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33947664521     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.24779     Document Type: Article

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