Fast Solar Sailing

Description

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.

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  Fast Solar Sailing: Astrodynamics of Special Sailcraft Trajectories

  • 2012-08-10
  • 410 pages
  • Ebook
  • Springer Science & Business Media