Overview
- This is the first full mathematical (and technological) monograph devoted to Fast Solar Sailing
- Educates the next generation of aerospace engineers on a revolutionary new engineering reality they can use for future deep space missions
- With a foreword by Les Johnson, Deputy Manager, NASA Advanced Concepts Office
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Space Technology Library (SPTL, volume 30)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Review of Rocket Spacecraft Trajectories
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Front Matter
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Sailing in Space Environment
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Front Matter
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Sailcraft Trajectories
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Front Matter
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Advanced Aspects
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric. Fast and very fast solar sailings are special classes of sailcraft missions, initially developed only in the first half of the 1990s and still evolving, especially after the latest advances in nanotechnology.
This book describes how to plan, compute and optimize the trajectories of sailcraft with speeds considerably higher than 100 km/s; such sailcraft would be able to explore the outer heliosphere, the near interstellar medium and the solar gravitational lens (550-800 astronomical units) in times significantly shorter than the span of an average career (~ 35 years), just to cite a few examples. The scientific interest in this type of exploration is huge.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fast Solar Sailing
Book Subtitle: Astrodynamics of Special Sailcraft Trajectories
Authors: Giovanni Vulpetti
Series Title: Space Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4777-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4776-0Published: 10 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8196-1Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4777-7Published: 10 August 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-4263
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 410
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation