Solar sail model validation from echo trajectories

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 127 PART 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 999-1008

  Heaton, Andrew F ^a   Brinckerhoff, Adam T ^b,c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIZED MYLARS; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS; GUIDANCE , NAVIGATION , AND CONTROLS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; NEW MILLENNIUM PROGRAMS; ORBITAL DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURES; SOLAR SAILS; SPACE PROPULSIONS; SPACE TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY READINESSES; TEST CASES;

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; BALLOONS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; MECHANICS; NASA; ORBITS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE OPTICS; SUN; TECHNOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 55649117570     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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