Advances in Solar Sailing [electronic resource] /
Macdonald, Malcolm.editor.
Hosted by the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory within the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Strathclyde, the third International Symposium on Solar Sailing was held in McCance Building at 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow, between 11 and 13 June 2013. The symposium attracted over 90 delegates from19 different counties, bringing together international experts from across the globe to discuss funded solar sail flight programs alongside on-going technology development and testing programs. The symposium also provided a forum for the discussion of enabling technologies, new application concepts, materials and structural concepts, space environmental effects, dynamics, navigation, control, and much more. This volume contains the unabridged symposium proceedings, in the gathered experts own words. As symposium chair, I thank our partners at Scottish Enterprise and L'Garde, Inc., the symposium's gold sponsor, for their support in realising this symposium.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Organizing Committee ""; ""Part I:  Flight Programs""; ""1  An overview of solar sail related activities at JAXA ""; ""I .Introduction ""; ""II.Ikaros Mission-how it was born and what was demonstrated ""; ""III. Solar Power Sail to Trojan Asteroids""; ""IV. Preparation Activities for Solar Power Sail mission""; ""V. Conclusion ""; ""References ""; ""2  An Overview of Solar Sail Propulsion within NASA""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Solar Sails In Perspective: 1990â€?s to the Present""; ""III. Potential Future Missions and Concepts""
""IV. Technology Development and Demonstrations""""V. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""3  Overview of IKAROS Mission""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. IKAROS Mission""; ""III.Devolopment of IKAROS Spacecraft""; ""IV. IKAROS Operation""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""4  How IKAROS Shape is Designed -Attitude Stability ofSpinning Solar Sail""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Derivation of Attitude Stability for Spinning Solar Sail""; ""III. Designing Spinning Sail Spacecraft Configuration""; ""IV. Numerical and In-Flight Evaluation of Stability""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""References""
""5  Evaluation of Sail Mechanics of IKAROS on its Slow-spinand Reverse-spin Operation""""I. Introduction""; ""II. Configuration of the Sail""; ""III. Slow-spin Operation""; ""IV. Numerical Analysis of the Shape of the Sail""; ""V. Reverse-spin Operation""; ""VI. Discussion""; ""VII. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""6  Attitude and Orbit Prediction of IKAROS in Actual Flight Operation""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Characteristics of IKAROS""; ""III. Search Operation""; ""IV. Attitude Prediction""; ""V. Orbit Prediction""; ""VI. Results of Search Operation""
""VII. Analysis to Improve Trajectory Prediction""""VIII. Summary""; ""References""; ""7  NanoSail â€? D Orbital and Attitude Dynamics""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Background""; ""III. Analysis""; ""IV. Models""; ""V. Results""; ""VI. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""8  Sunjammer : A Solar Sail Demonstration""; "" Sunjammer Mission Overview""; ""Deployment""; ""Attitude Calibration""; ""Thrust Calibration""; ""Flyout and Other Extended Operations""; ""References""; ""9  Commercial Solar Sail Applications: Overview andUpdate on NASAâ€?s Sunjammer Mission""; ""I. About Sunjammer""
""II. About SSHI""""III. Precursor Private Solar Sail Efforts""; ""IV. SSHI and Sunjammer""; ""V. Post Sunjammer Commercial Infusion Activities and Opportunities""; ""VI. Conclusion""; ""VII. References""; ""10  The Preliminary Design of the GOSSAMER-1 Solar SailMembrane and Manufacturing Strategies""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Sail Storage""; ""III. Material Selection""; ""IV. Membrane Design""; ""V. Sail Membrane Manufacturing""; ""VI. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""11  Demonstrator Flight Missions at the Surrey SpaceCentre involving Gossamer Sails""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. CubeSail""
""III. DGOSS - Deployable Gossamer Sail for Deorbiting""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Hosted by the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory within the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Strathclyde, the third International Symposium on Solar Sailing was held in McCance Building at 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow, between 11 and 13 June 2013. The symposium attracted over 90 delegates from19 different counties, bringing together international experts from across the globe to discuss funded solar sail flight programs alongside on-going technology development and testing programs. The symposium also provided a forum for the discussion of enabling technologies, new application concepts, materials and structural concepts, space environmental effects, dynamics, navigation, control, and much more. This volume contains the unabridged symposium proceedings, in the gathered experts own words. As symposium chair, I thank our partners at Scottish Enterprise and L'Garde, Inc., the symposium's gold sponsor, for their support in realising this symposium.
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