TY - CONF A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Mengali, Giovanni A1 - Quarta, Alessandro A A1 - Macdonald, Malcolm A1 - McInnes, Colin R T1 - Optical solar sail degradation modelling T2 - 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing N2 - We propose a simple parametric OSSD model that describes the variation of the sail film's optical coefficients with time, depending on the sail film's environmental history, i.e., the radiation dose. The primary intention of our model is not to describe the exact behavior of specific film-coating combinations in the real space environment, but to provide a more general parametric framework for describing the general optical degradation behavior of solar sails. Y1 - 2007 UR - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9971 N1 - 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing 27–29 June 2007, Herrsching, Germany SP - 1 EP - 27 ER -