Add to ORKGWe present a new approach to the problem of optimal control of solar sails for low-thrust trajectory optimization. The objective was to find the required control torque magnitudes in order to steer a solar sail in interplanetary space. A new steering strategy, controlling the solar sail with generic torques applied about the spacecraft body axes, is integrated into the existing low-thrust trajectory optimization software InTrance. This software combines artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms to find steering strategies close to the global optimum without an initial guess. Furthermore, we implement a three rotational degree-of-freedom rigid-body attitude dynamics model to represent the solar sail in space. Two interplanetary ...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
This paper investigates the design and optimization of solar sail interplanetary trajectories connec...
As for all low-thrust spacecraft, finding optimal solar sailcraft trajectories is a difficult and ti...
The goal of this work was to optimize the trajectory of a solar sailcraft in an Earth-Mars transfer....
Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provid...
Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provid...
When sunlight illuminates a body, a tiny pressure is exerted upon its surface due to the photons imp...
A simplified solar sail steering law is discussed in which the sail clock angle is used as the only ...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of a maximum admissible value of the sail cone angle...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
This paper investigates the design and optimization of solar sail interplanetary trajectories connec...
As for all low-thrust spacecraft, finding optimal solar sailcraft trajectories is a difficult and ti...
The goal of this work was to optimize the trajectory of a solar sailcraft in an Earth-Mars transfer....
Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provid...
Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provid...
When sunlight illuminates a body, a tiny pressure is exerted upon its surface due to the photons imp...
A simplified solar sail steering law is discussed in which the sail clock angle is used as the only ...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
SOLAR sailing has long been considered for a diverse range of future mission applications. As with o...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of a maximum admissible value of the sail cone angle...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
With increased interest in solar sailing from both ESA and NASA for future science missions comes th...
This paper investigates the design and optimization of solar sail interplanetary trajectories connec...