Trajectory optimization and applications using high performance solar sails

作     者：Xiangyuan Zeng,~(a)) Junfeng Li,~(b)) Hexi Baoyin,and Shengping Gong School of Aerospace,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China 

作者机构：School of Aerospace Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China 

出 版 物：《Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters》 (力学快报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第1卷第3期

页      面：1-7页

学科分类：08[工学] 082503[工学-航空宇航制造工程] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10832004 and 10902056) 

主　　题：solar sail non-Keplerian orbit angular momentum reversal time optimal control 

摘      要：The high performance solar sail can enable fast missions to the outer solar system and produce exotic non-Keplerian *** there is no fuel consumption,mission trajectories for solar sail spacecraft are typically optimized with respect to flight *** investigations focused on interstellar probe missions have been made,including optimal methods and new objective functions. Two modes of interstellar mission trajectories,namely direct flyby and angular momentum reversal trajectory ,are compared and *** a foundation,a 3D non-dimensional dynamic model for an ideal plane solar sail is introduced as well as an optimal control framework.A newly found periodic double angular momentum reversal trajectory is presented,and some properties and potential applications of this kind of inverse orbits are *** method how to achieve the minimum periodic inverse orbit is also briefly elucidated.