Orbital Mechanics of Propellantless Propulsion Systems
COLIN R. MCINNES 1
MATTHEW P. CARTMELL 2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow.
Contents
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Solar sailing
7.3. Solar sail orbital mechanics
7.4. Artificial three-body equilibria for solar sails
7.5. Mission applications
7.6. Tethers in space
7.7. Tethers in orbit
7.8. Conclusions
7.1 Introduction
Conventional spacecraft are limited in their ability to deliver high-energy missions by a fundamental reliance on reaction mass. However, this constraint can in principle be overcome by a class of propellantless propulsion systems which either extract momentum from ...
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