Advances in Solar Sailing

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Overview of Solar Sail Related Activities at JAXA....Pages 3-14
An Overview of Solar Sail Propulsion within NASA....Pages 15-23
Overview of IKAROS Mission....Pages 25-43
How IKAROS Shape is Designed: Attitude Stability of Spinning Solar Sail....Pages 45-56
Evaluation of Sail Mechanics of IKAROS on its Slow-Spin and Reverse-Spin Operation....Pages 57-74
Attitude and Orbit Prediction of IKAROS in Actual Flight Operation....Pages 75-93
NanoSail:D Orbital and Attitude Dynamics....Pages 95-113
Sunjammer: A Solar Sail Demonstration....Pages 115-126
Commercial Solar Sail Applications: Overview and Update on NASA’s Sunjammer Mission....Pages 127-132
The Preliminary Design of the GOSSAMER-1 Solar Sail Membrane and Manufacturing Strategies....Pages 133-151
Demonstrator Flight Missions at the Surrey Space Centre Involving Gossamer Sails....Pages 153-167
ISS-Based Solar Sail Deployment Experiment “BMSTU-Sail”....Pages 169-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Magnetic Field Measurements from a Solar Sail Platform with Space Weather Applications....Pages 185-200
Solar Wind Analyser (SWAN) for the Sunjammer Solar Sail Mission....Pages 201-210
Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Multiple NEO Rendezvous Mission....Pages 211-226
Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Sub-L 1 Space Weather Mission....Pages 227-242
Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Solar Polar Mission....Pages 243-257
SOLARIS: Solar Sail Investigation of the Sun....Pages 259-268
A Fractionated Space Weather Base at L 5 using CubeSats and Solar Sails....Pages 269-288
Design and Trade-offs of a Pole-Sitter Mission....Pages 289-308
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Reduction of Martian Sample Return Mission Launch Mass with Solar Sail Propulsion....Pages 309-329
Distributed Reflectivity Solar Sails for Extended Mission Applications....Pages 331-350
Alternative Application of Solar Sail Technology....Pages 351-365
Earth-Crossing Asteroids Deflection with a Sailcraft....Pages 367-386
Solar Sails and the Search for Dark Matter....Pages 387-395
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Light Pressure Measurement at DLR Bremen....Pages 399-406
Realistic Solar Sail Thrust....Pages 407-435
Direct Thrust Efficiency for the L’Garde Sail Surface with a Linear Reflectivity Model....Pages 437-455
Thrust Efficiency on an Idealized Deformable Sail....Pages 457-467
The Solar Radiation Pressure Force Models for a General Sail Surface Shape....Pages 469-488
Applying Vector Scattering Theory to Solar-Photon Sail Thrust Modeling....Pages 489-508
The Solar Sail Materials Project: Results of Activities....Pages 509-524
Selection and Manufacturing of Membrane Materials for Solar Sails....Pages 525-540
The Complex Irradiation Facility at DLR-Bremen....Pages 541-557
H 2 Blister Formation on Metallic Surfaces: A Candidate for Degradation Processes in Space....Pages 559-571
Solar Sail: Materials and Space Environmental Effects....Pages 573-592
Design and Sizing of the GOSSAMER Boom Deployment Concept....Pages 593-608
Bistable Over the Whole Length (BOWL) CFRP Booms for Solar Sails....Pages 609-628
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Heliogyro Solar Sail Research at NASA....Pages 631-650
Solarelastic Stability of the Heliogyro....Pages 651-665
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Heliogyro Attitude Control Moment Authority via Blade Pitch Maneuvers....Pages 667-686
Dynamics of a Coupled Pendulum Model of a Heliogyro Membrane Blade....Pages 687-704
Challenges Associated with System Identification and Control of a Heliogyro Membrane Blade....Pages 705-716
Two-Blade Solar Sail Dynamics....Pages 717-735
Solar Sail Coning Control to Induce Orbital Effects in Spinning Versus Non-spinning Sails....Pages 737-753
The Attitude Control of a Tri-Spin Solar Sail Satellite....Pages 755-769
Influence of Attitude Control on Orbital Plane Change for Flexible Solar Sail....Pages 771-790
Coupled Attitude–Orbit Dynamics and Control of Reflectivity Modulated Solar Sail for GeoSail Formation Flying....Pages 791-810
Dynamical Analysis of the Deployment for a Reduced Spinning Solar Sail Model....Pages 811-827
Front Matter....Pages 829-829
Optimal Solar Sail Interplanetary Trajectories with Constant Cone Angle....Pages 831-850
New Families of Non-Keplerian Orbits: Solar Sail Motion over Cylinders and Spheres....Pages 851-870
Families of Periodic Orbits for Solar Sails in the CRBTP....Pages 871-884
Periodic Motion for an Imperfect Solar Sail Near an Asteroid....Pages 885-898
Variable-Geometry Solar Sailing: The Possibilities of the Quasi-Rhombic Pyramid....Pages 899-919
Real Solar Sails are Not Ideal, and Yes It Matters....Pages 921-940
Inspection of a Co-orbital Solar Sail Using a Microthruster Attitude Control System....Pages 941-960
Deployment Simulations of the Space Tow Solar Sail....Pages 961-976
Electric Solar Wind Sail: Deployment, Long-Term Dynamics, and Control Hardware Requirements....Pages 977-987