Design concept and modeling of an advanced solar photon thruster
- The so-called "compound solar sail", also known as "Solar Photon Thruster" (SPT), holds the potential of providing significant performance advantages over the flat solar sail. Previous SPT design concepts, however, do not consider shadowing effects and multiple reflections of highly concentrated solar radiation that would inevitably destroy the gossamer sail film. In this paper, we propose a novel advanced SPT (ASPT) design concept that does not suffer from these oversimplifications. We present the equations that describe the thrust force acting on such a sail system and compare its performance with respect to the conventional flat solar sail.
| Author: | Bernd DachwaldORCiD, P. Wurm |
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| ISBN: | 978-087703554-1 |
| ISSN: | 00653438 |
| Parent Title (English): | Advances in the Astronautical Sciences |
| Publisher: | American Astronautical Society |
| Place of publication: | San Diego, Calif. |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2009 |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2024/03/11 |
| Tag: | solar sails |
| First Page: | 723 |
| Last Page: | 740 |
| Note: | 19th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting; Savannah, GA; United States; 8 February 2009 through 12 February 2009 |
| Link: | https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80053408846&origin=inward&txGid=c71a812af6b448da0e0cb316e77aae9c |
| Zugriffsart: | bezahl |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik |
| FH Aachen / IfB - Institut für Bioengineering | |
| FH Aachen / Kommission für Forschung und Entwicklung | |
| collections: | Verlag / American Astronautical Society |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung |
