Solar sail technology has been proposed and developed for space explorations with
advantages of low launch cost, no-propellant consumption, and continuous thrust, which has …

This paper presents a review of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) methods for order
reduction in a variety of research areas. The historical development and basic mathematical …

This paper reviews solar sail trajectory design and dynamics, attitude control, and structural
dynamics. Within the area of orbital dynamics, methods relevant to transfer trajectory design …

A Smart Dust is a propellantless femtosatellite, with a characteristic side length of a few
millimeters and a high value of its area-to-mass ratio. It exploits the solar radiation pressure …

Inspired by the integrated guidance and control design for endo-atmospheric aircraft, the
integrated position and attitude control of spacecraft has attracted increasing attention and …

Solar sail spacecraft are proposed to accomplish body-fixed hovering missions over
elongated asteroids. The body-fixed hovering flight is to maintain a fixed position relative to …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the transfer performance of a spacecraft whose primary
propulsion system is a diffractive solar sail with active, switchable panels. The spacecraft …

Solar sails with the capability of generating a tangential radiation pressure at the sun-
pointing attitude, such as refractive sails can provide more efficient methods for attitude and …

Liquid crystal diffractive sails can generate controllable tangential radiation pressures, which
have advantages in the Solar Polar Imager mission (SPI). This paper proposes a composite …

THE orbit of a spacecraft will be a non-Keplerian orbit if forces other than the two-body
Newtonian gravitational force are exerted on the spacecraft. The solar sail orbits are always …