Considerations of electric sailcraft trajectory design

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 326-329

  Mengali, G ^a   Quarta, A A ^a   Janhunen, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electric sail; Mission design; Trajectory optimisation

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

ELECTRIC SAIL; ESCAPE TRAJECTORIES; GRAVITY-ASSIST; MISSION DESIGN; PARAMETERIZED; PIONEER ANOMALIES; TRAJECTORY DESIGNS; TRAJECTORY OPTIMISATION;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 47749107172     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. P. Janhunen, "Electric sail for spacecraft propulsion", J. Prop. Power, 20, pp.763-764, 2004.
2. P. Janhunen and A. Sandroos, "Simulation study of solar wind push on a charged wire: basis of solar wind electric sail propulsion", Ann. Geophys., 25, pp.755-767, 2007.
3. P. Janhunen, "A New Propulsion Method Which May Enable Fast Missions to the Outer Solar System", JBIS, 61, pp., 2008.
4. G. Mengali, A.A. Quarta and P. Janhunen, "Electric sail performance analysis", J. Spacecraft Rockets, 45, pp.122-129, 2008.