Solar sail orbit operations at asteroids: Exploring the coupled effect of an imperfectly reflecting sail and a nonspherical asteroid

AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Morrow, Esther ^a   Scheeresz, D J ^b   Lubin, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; ASTROPHYSICS; ORBITS; PRESSURE; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR RADIATION;

COUPLED EFFECT; J2 PERTURBATION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; ORBIT OPERATIONS; PARAMETER COMBINATION; SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE; SOLAR SAIL DYNAMICS; SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS;

SOLAR SAILS;

EID: 85086493067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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