Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications - Rilegato

McInnes, Colin Robert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 185233102X ISBN 13: 9781852331023

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 1999

Riassunto

Solar sailing - using the sun as a propellant - offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions that are impossible with conventional spacecraft. This first comprehensive book on this propulsion method provides a detailed account of solar sailing, at a high technical level, but in a way accessible to the scientifically informed layperson. Solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure form the foundations of the book, but the engineering design of solar sails is also considered, along with potential mission applications.

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Contenuti

1 Introduction to solar sailing.- 2 Solar radiation pressure.- 3 Solar sail design.- 4 Solar sail orbital dynamics.- 5 Non-Keplerian orbits.- 6 Mission application case studies.- 7 Laser-driven light sails.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 185233102X
• ISBN 13: 9781852331023
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: CMN Printpool Inh. Mathis Neumann; https://www.also.com/ec/cms5/en_6000/6000/index.jsp; ; Friedrich-Karl-Str. 9; Hamburg; Germania