Solar sail science mission applications and advancement |
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Authors: | Malcolm Macdonald Colin MInnes |
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Institution: | Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Solar sailing has long been envisaged as an enabling or disruptive technology. The promise of open-ended missions allows consideration of radically new trajectories and the delivery of spacecraft to previously unreachable or unsustainable observation outposts. A mission catalogue is presented of an extensive range of potential solar sail applications, allowing identification of the key features of missions which are enabled, or significantly enhance, through solar sail propulsion. Through these considerations a solar sail application-pull technology development roadmap is established, using each mission as a technology stepping-stone to the next. |
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Keywords: | Solar sail Mission applications Technology development Advancement degree of difficulty |
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