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A complete treatment of the general motion of rotation and translation of a solar-sail spacecraft is proposed for the non-flat sail of complex shape. The planar heliocentric roto-translatory motion is considered, orbit-rotational coupling in the problem of altitude and orbital sail motion is investigated for the two-folding sail formed by two unequal reflective rectangular plates oriented at a right angle. The problem of orbit-rotational coupling is essentially a planar one: both sail plates are orthogonal to the orbital plane. The possibility of the non-controlled interplanetary transfer with such two-folding sail at its passive radiational orientation is established analytically from point of view of orbit-rotational coupling. Optimal geometric proportions of this sail are found at minimum-time interplanetary transfers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 255-269 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1995 |
ID: 86488321