Logarithmic Spiral: An Ideal Trajectory for the Interplanetary Vehicle with Engines of Low Sustained Thrust

DOI10.1119/1.1934788MaRDI QIDQ3256012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph Hoyt Bacon

Publication date 1959

Published in American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1934788

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fluid mechanics

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• New solutions to the central force problem: a class of generalized conic trajectories
• Pedal coordinates, solar sail orbits, dipole drive and other force problems
• Logarithmic spiral trajectories generated by solar sails
• An analytical description of three-dimensional heliocentric solar sail orbits
• Unconstrained direct optimization of spacecraft trajectories using many embedded Lambert problems

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