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Advances in Solar Sailing

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Editors:
  1. Malcolm Macdonald

    1. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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  • Gives a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology across the globe, capturing flight programs, technology development programs and new technology and application concepts
  • Presents contributions from all of the leading figures in the field, including NASA, JAXA, ESA & DLR as well as university and industry experts
  • Provides a unique reference point for the solar sail technology
  • Includes key contributions from the prospective users of solar sail technology, which will allow the technology to be considered by the user in this unique context
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)

Part of the book sub series: Astronautical Engineering (ASTROENG)

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Table of contents (58 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Flight Programs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Overview of Solar Sail Related Activities at JAXA

      • Junichiro Kawaguchi
      Pages 3-14

    3. An Overview of Solar Sail Propulsion within NASA

      • Les Johnson, Grover A. Swartzlander, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse
      Pages 15-23

    4. Overview of IKAROS Mission

      • Osamu Mori, Yoji Shirasawa, Yuya Mimasu, Yuichi Tsuda, Hirotaka Sawada, Takanao Saiki et al.
      Pages 25-43

    5. How IKAROS Shape is Designed: Attitude Stability of Spinning Solar Sail

      • Yuichi Tsuda, IKAROS Demonstration Team
      Pages 45-56

    6. Evaluation of Sail Mechanics of IKAROS on its Slow-Spin and Reverse-Spin Operation

      • Yoji Shirasawa, Osamu Mori, Nobukatsu Okuizumi, Yasutaka Satou, Ayumu Yamasaki, Hiroshi Furuya et al.
      Pages 57-74

    7. Attitude and Orbit Prediction of IKAROS in Actual Flight Operation

      • Yuya Mimasu, Yoji Shirasawa, Katsuhide Yonekura, Osamu Mori, Takanao Saiki, Yuichi Tsuda et al.
      Pages 75-93

    8. NanoSail:D Orbital and Attitude Dynamics

      • Andrew F. Heaton, Brent F. Faller, Chelsea K. Katan
      Pages 95-113

    9. Sunjammer: A Solar Sail Demonstration

      • Nathan C. Barnes, William C. Derbes, Charles J. Player, Benjamin L. Diedrich
      Pages 115-126

    10. Commercial Solar Sail Applications: Overview and Update on NASA’s Sunjammer Mission

      • Charles M. Chafer
      Pages 127-132

    11. The Preliminary Design of the GOSSAMER-1 Solar Sail Membrane and Manufacturing Strategies

      • P. Seefeldt, P. Spietz, T. Spröwitz
      Pages 133-151

    12. Demonstrator Flight Missions at the Surrey Space Centre Involving Gossamer Sails

      • V. Lappas, J. Fernandez, L. Visagie, O. Stohlman, A. Viquerat, G. Prassinos et al.
      Pages 153-167

    13. ISS-Based Solar Sail Deployment Experiment “BMSTU-Sail”

      • Vera Mayorova, Alexander Popov, Nikolay Nerovnyy, Dmitry Rachkin, Stepan Tenenbaum
      Pages 169-182

  3. Mission Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Magnetic Field Measurements from a Solar Sail Platform with Space Weather Applications

      • Jonathan P. Eastwood, Patrick Brown, Tim M. Oddy, Barry J. Whiteside, Peter Fox, Nasir Adeli et al.
      Pages 185-200

    3. Solar Wind Analyser (SWAN) for the Sunjammer Solar Sail Mission

      • D. O. Kataria, Mark Hailey, Hubert Hu
      Pages 201-210

    4. Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Multiple NEO Rendezvous Mission

      • Bernd Dachwald, Hermann Boehnhardt, Ulrich Broj, Ulrich R. M. E. Geppert, Jan-Thimo Grundmann, Wolfgang Seboldt et al.
      Pages 211-226

    5. Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Sub-L1 Space Weather Mission

      • Colin R. McInnes, Volker Bothmer, Bernd Dachwald, Ulrich R. M. E. Geppert, Jeannette Heiligers, Alan Hilgers et al.
      Pages 227-242

    6. Gossamer Roadmap Technology Reference Study for a Solar Polar Mission

      • M. Macdonald, C. McGrath, T. Appourchaux, B. Dachwald, W. Finsterle, L. Gizon et al.
      Pages 243-257
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This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 – 13 June 2013. It is a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology in 2013 across the globe, capturing flight programs, technology development programs and new technology and application concepts. The book contains contributions from all of the leading figures in the field, including NASA, JAXA, ESA & DLR as well as university and industry experts. It therefore provides a unique reference point for the solar sail technology. The book also includes key contributions from the prospective users of solar sail technology, which will allow the technology to be considered by the user in this unique context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Malcolm Macdonald

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