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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.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Страницы (с-по)255-269
Число страниц15
ЖурналCelestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy
Том63
Номер выпуска3-4
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - сен 1995

    Предметные области Scopus

  • Моделирование и симуляция
  • Математическая физика
  • Астрономия и астрофизика
  • Космические науки и планетоведение
  • Вычислительная математика
  • Прикладная математика

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