The heliocentric motion of the solar sail spacecraft is described in classical Keplerian elements. The flat of solar sail with an ideal reflection coefficient is considered. The spacecraft performs a noncoplanar motion with the sun gravity and the light pressure. Disturbances of other celestial bodies gravity are not considered. We have received analytical terms for laws to control a solar sail, which ensure constancy or maximum rate of change of the Keplerian elements. To confirm the results correctness, we simulated the solar sail spacecraft. The spacecraft’s initial orbit coincides with the average Earth orbit relative to the Sun. Authors developed a program complex to simulated the planar heliocentric movement and obtained results for motion simulation of flights to Mars and Venus. The results were compared with the simulation results obtained using the Pontryagin maximum principle.


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    Title :

    Analytical control laws of the heliocentric motion of the solar sail spacecraft


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE AND SCIENCES: ICNPAA 2014 ; 2014 ; Narvik, Norway


    Published in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 1637 , 1 ; 358-367


    Publication date :

    2014-12-10


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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