In this paper, the current state of the art of solar sail technology is reviewed. Solar sail
research is quite broad and multi-disciplinary; this paper focuses mainly on areas such as …

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 …

CELESTIAL mechanics has traditionally been concerned with orbital motion under the
action of a conservative gravitational potential. In particular, the inverse square gravitational …

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 …

We consider periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem, where the third
(small) body is a solar sail. In particular, we consider orbits about equilibrium points in the …

The focus of this paper is to connect the rotating mass dipole with natural elongated bodies.
The dipole system is consisted with two point masses connected with a massless rod in a …

This paper provides a preliminary end-to-end mission design for NASA's Sunjammer solar
sail mission, which is scheduled for ground test deployment in 2015 with launch at a later …

The use of the electrochromic device has been proposed for the attitude control of spacecraft
for decades because its optical characteristics can be altered by electrical excitation. The …

The aim of this paper is to propose a distributed control architecture for a solar sail-based
formation, flying around an L 2-type artificial equilibrium point in the Sun-[Earth+ Moon] …

An electric sail is capable of guaranteeing the fulfilment of a class of trajectories that would
be otherwise unfeasible through conventional propulsion systems. In particular, the aim of …