An analytical description of three-dimensional heliocentric solar sail orbits
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Stewart, Brian, Palmer, P and Roberts, M (2016) An analytical description of three-dimensional heliocentric solar sail orbits Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 128 (1). pp. 61-74.
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Abstract
This paper introduces a simple analytical approximation to three-dimensional heliocentric solar sail orbits where the only forces considered are solar gravity and solar radiation. The approximation is based upon the previously studied hodograph transformation and provides a description of the inclination, longitude of ascending node and true latitude for a specific set of initial conditions. It is shown that the rotational symmetry of a heliocentric orbit allows this specific solution to be mapped onto a solution with arbitrary initial conditions. The approximation is then compared to the numerical results for a solar sail on an Earth escape trajectory with an area to mass ratio up to twice as high as current technology allows.
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| Divisions : | Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering | ||||||||||||
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| Date : | 2 November 2016 | ||||||||||||
| DOI : | 10.1007/s10569-016-9740-x | ||||||||||||
| Copyright Disclaimer : | © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | ||||||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Solar sails · Heliocentric orbits · Hodograph · Spherical symmetry | ||||||||||||
| Depositing User : | Melanie Hughes | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited : | 28 Feb 2018 11:52 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified : | 16 Jan 2019 19:08 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/845916 |
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