Controlling spacecraft by means of solar radiation

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 52 - Trang 244-249 - 2014
E. N. Chumachenko1, R. R. Nazirov1,2, D. U. Dunhem1,3, A. N. Fedorenko1
1Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
2Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
3KinetX Aerospace, Inc., Tempe, USA

Tóm tắt

The possibility of using solar sails in Earth orbit is investigated. The characteristic parameters of a solar sail consisting of six spheres attached by mutually orthogonal long rods are estimated.

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