The effects of sail parameters on its orbital stability

Sheng Ping Gong; Jun Feng Li; He Xi Baoyin

The effects of sail parameters on its orbital stability

Sheng Ping Gong^*
, Jun Feng Li
, He Xi Baoyin

^*Corresponding author for this work

Tsinghua University

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Abstract

The orbit and attitude control is a very important aspect of solar sail research. This paper investigates the passive stability of solar sail with the attitude and orbit considered simultaneously. The solar sail is stabilized passively by designing the area of the sail and length of the boom and how the area and length affects the stability is investigated. The results show that the area is very important for the stability and the length of the boom has negligible influences on the stability. For a given length of the boom, the solar sail can be stabilized by the designing the area of the sail.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	772-777
Number of pages	6
Journal	Yuhang Xuebao/Journal of Astronautics
Volume	29
Issue number	3
State	Published - May 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Displaced orbit
Passive stability
Solar sail

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The effects of sail parameters on its orbital stability

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