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Solar Sail Spaceflight Simulation

Abstract

The Solar Sail Spaceflight Simulation Software (S5) toolkit provides solar-sail designers with an integrated environment for designing optimal solar-sail trajectories, and then studying the attitude dynamics/control, navigation, and trajectory control/correction of sails during realistic mission simulations. Unique features include a high-fidelity solar radiation pressure model suitable for arbitrarily-shaped solar sails, a solar-sail trajectory optimizer, capability to develop solar-sail navigation filter simulations, solar-sail attitude control models, and solar-sail high-fidelity force models.

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Lisano, Michael, Evans, James, Ellis, Jordan, Schimmels, John, Roberts, Timothy, Rios-Reyes, Leonel, Scheeres, Daniel, Bladt, Jeff, Lawrence, Dale, Piggott, Scott. 2007-09-01. Solar Sail Spaceflight Simulation. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100010965

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