Generalized Model for Solar Sails

Design Rules and Scaling for Solar Sails

Useful design rules and simple scaling models have been developed for solar sails. Chief among the conclusions are 1. Sail distortions contribute to the thrust and moments primarily though the mean squared value of their derivatives (slopes), and the sail behaves like a flat sheet if the value is small. The RMS slope is therefore an important figure of merit, and sail distortion effects on the ...

Interplanetary Radiation and Internal Charging Environment Models for Solar Sails

A Solar Sail Radiation Environment (SSRE) model has been developed for defining charged particle environments over an energy range from 0.01 keV to 1 MeV for hydrogen ions, helium ions, and electrons. The SSRE model provides the free field charged particle environment required for characterizing energy deposition per unit mass, charge deposition, and dose rate dependent conductivity processes r...

Shape-changing Solar Sails for Novel Mission Applications

Distributed Reflectivity Solar Sails for Extended Mission Applications

Colin Robert (2014) Distributed reflectivity solar sails for extended mission applications. In: Macdonald, Malcolm (ed.) Advances in Solar Sailing. Series: Springer Praxis Books: Astronautical Engineering . Springer in association with Praxis Publishing, pp. 331-350. ISBN 9783642349065 Copyright © 2014 Springer A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prio...

Azimuthal Repositioning of Payloads in Heliocentric Orbit Using Solar Sails

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