GeoSail: An elegant solar sail demonstration mission

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 784-796

  Macdonald, Malcolm ^a,d   Hughes, Gareth W ^a,e   McInnes, Colin ^b,e,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 CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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

^f AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

APSE-LINE PRECESSION; CHEMICAL PROPULSION; MISSION COSTS; SOLAR SAIL TECHNOLOGY;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34548369647     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.22867     Document Type: Article

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