TY - GEN
T1 - Solar sailing fundamentals with an exploration of trajectory control to lunar halo orbit
AU - Vance, Leonard D.
AU - Nallapu, Raviteja
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekanthan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper covers the basic physics of solar sailing and then explores practical guidance techniques for controlling solar sailing spacecraft on the earth-moon halo orbit entry manifolds expected to be used by NASA’s Lunar Gateway. A four body (Sun, Earth, Moon, spacecraft) simulation is utilized to generate the resultant trajectory performance. Biases to the reference manifold trajectories are derived to center spacecraft acceleration capability within the limited solar sailing acceleration envelope, and improvements in performance are demonstrated.
AB - This paper covers the basic physics of solar sailing and then explores practical guidance techniques for controlling solar sailing spacecraft on the earth-moon halo orbit entry manifolds expected to be used by NASA’s Lunar Gateway. A four body (Sun, Earth, Moon, spacecraft) simulation is utilized to generate the resultant trajectory performance. Biases to the reference manifold trajectories are derived to center spacecraft acceleration capability within the limited solar sailing acceleration envelope, and improvements in performance are demonstrated.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2020-1207
DO - 10.2514/6.2020-1207
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091943454
SN - 9781624105951
T3 - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
BT - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Scitech Forum, 2020
Y2 - 6 January 2020 through 10 January 2020
ER -