Earth escape by ideal sail and solar-photon thrustor spacecraft

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1105-1108

  Mengali, Giovanni ^a,b   Quarta, Alessandro A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; SOLAR RADIATION; VECTORS;

GEOSYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER ORBIT; ORBITAL ENERGY; SOLAR SAILS; THRUST PROPULSION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 9944236905     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10637     Document Type: Article

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