Mission and Conceptual System Design of Solar Sail Testing Cube Satellite CNUSAIL-1

Solar Sail Science Mission Applications and Advancement

Solar sailing has long been envisaged as an enabling or disruptive technology. The promise of openended missions allows consideration of radically new trajectories and the delivery of spacecraft to previously unreachable or unsustainable observation outposts. A mission catalogue is presented of an extensive range of potential solar sail applications, allowing identification of the key features ...

Deployment System for the CubeSail nano-Solar Sail Mission

The CubeSail is a nano-Solar Sail based on the 3U CubeSat standard currently being built at the Surrey Space Centre. The CubeSail mission aims to demonstrate the concept of solar sailing and at its end-of-life use the sail membrane for de-orbiting. One of the main challenges in the design of any Solar Sail is the deployment mechanism. This paper proposes a deployment mechanism for the CubeSail....

Solar Sail Roadmap Mission GN&C Challenges

The NASA In-Space Propulsion program is funding development work for solar sails to enhance future scientific opportunities. Key to this effort are solar sail scientific roadmap missions identified by peer review. Two near-term missions of interest are L1 Diamond and Solar Polar Imager. Additionally, the New Millennium Program is sponsoring the Space Technology 9 (ST9) demonstration mission. So...

Solar Sail Trajectory Design for a Multiple Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

Synchronous Deployed Solar Sail Subsystem Design Concept

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