Attitude and orbit coupling of planar helio-stable solar sails

DOI10.1007/S10569-019-9937-XzbMATH Open1451.70049arXiv1904.00436OpenAlexW3100500878MaRDI QIDQ2005672FDOQ2005672

Camilla Colombo, Narcís Miguel

Publication date: 8 October 2020

Published in: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The coupled attitude and orbit dynamics of solar sails is studied. The shape of the sail is a simplified quasi-rhombic-pyramid that provides the structure helio-stablility properties. After adimensionalisation, the system is put in the form of a fast-slow dynamical system where the different time scales are explicitely related to the physical parameters of the system. The orientation of the body frame with respect to the inertial orbit frame is a fast phase that can be averaged out. This gives rise to a simplified formulation that only consists of the orbit dynamics perturbed by a flat sail with fixed attitude perpendicular to the direction of the sunlight. The results are exemplified using numerical simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00436

zbMATH Keywords

averagingsolar sailsend-of-life disposalshelio-stabilitymultiple timescale dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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• Multiple time scale dynamics
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