Impact of optical degradation on solar sail mission performance

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 740-749

  Dachwald, Bernd ^a,e   Macdonald, Malcolm ^b,f   McInnes, Colin R ^c,e,g   Mengali, Giovanni ^d,e,g   Quarta, Alessandro A ^d,e,g  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^g SciSys ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMER FILMS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

DAMAGING EFFECTS; LAGRANGE-POINT MISSIONS; MERCURY RENDEZVOUS MISSIONS; OPTICAL DEGRADATION; SOLAR SAIL MISSIONS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548334663     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.21432     Document Type: Article

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