A new solar sail orbit
Gong, Shengping and Baoyin, Hexi and Li, Junfeng and Simo, Jules (2012) A new solar sail orbit. Science China - Technological Sciences, 55 (3). pp. 848-855. ISSN 1674-7321
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Solar sail is used to achieve a geocentric sun-synchronous frozen orbit. This kind of orbit combines the characteristics of both sun-synchronous orbits and frozen orbits. Furthermore, the impossible orbits for a typical spacecraft such as sun-synchronous orbits whose inclination is less than 90° are also possible for solar sail. To achieve a sun-synchronous frozen orbit, the characteristic acceleration of the sail is chosen properly. In addition, the attitude of the sail is adjusted to keep the sun-synchronous and frozen characteristics. The perturbations including atmosphere drag, third-body gravitational forces and shaded regions are discussed, where the atmosphere drag is cancelled by solar radiation pressure force, third-body gravitational forces have negligible effects on the orbit and the shaded region can be avoided by choosing the classical orbit elements of the sail. At last, a numerical example is employed to validate the sun-synchronous frozen characteristics of the sail.
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Gong, Shengping, Baoyin, Hexi, Li, Junfeng and Simo, Jules ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 50002 |
Keywords: | solar sailing, solar sail orbits, sun-synchronous orbit, atmospheric drag, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering |
Subjects: | Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 23 Oct 2014 14:34 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 21:32 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50002 |
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