Solar Sail Augmented Hohmann Transfer

Quarta, Alessandro A.; Mengali, Giovanni; Niccolai, Lorenzo; Bianchi, Christian

doi:10.1109/taes.2022.3206727

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“…Solar sails are most likely to be used in deep space exploration in the future, and the area of the solar sail must be sufficiently large to achieve adequate thrust. When the size of the solar sail is very large, the displacement of the sail membrane under solar pressure will increase [1,2]. The solar sail must be kept from the spacecraft using the deployment mechanisms to minimize damage caused by the sail membrane contacting the spacecraft [3,4].…”

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Dynamic Analysis and Parametric Optimization of Telescopic Tubular Mast Applied on Solar Sail

Liu

et al. 2023

Chin. J. Mech. Eng.

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Large-scale solar sails can provide power to spacecraft for deep space exploration. A new type of telescopic tubular mast (TTM) driven by a bistable carbon fiber-reinforced polymer tube was designed in this study to solve the problem of contact between the sail membrane and the spacecraft under light pressure. Compared with the traditional TTM, it has a small size, light weight, high extension ratio, and simple structure. The anti-blossoming and self-unlocking structure of the proposed TTM was described. We aimed to simplify the TTM with a complex structure into a beam model with equal linear mass density, and the simulation results showed good consistency. The dynamic equation was derived based on the equivalent model, and the effects of different factors on the vibration characteristics of the TTM were analyzed. The performance parameters were optimized based on a multiobjective genetic algorithm, and prototype production and load experiments were conducted. The results show that the advantages of the new TTM can complete the deployment of large-scale solar sails, which is valuable for future deep space exploration.

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