Alternative application of solar sail technology
- The development of Gossamer sail structures for solar sails contributes to a large field of future space applications like thin film solar generators, membrane antennas and drag sails. The focus of this paper is the development of a drag sail based on solar sail technology that could contribute to a reduction of space debris in low Earth orbits. The drag sail design and its connections to solar sail development, a first test on a sounding rocket, as well as the ongoing integration of the drag sail into a triple CubeSat is presented.
Author: | Nino Wolff, Patric Seefeldt, Wolfgang Bauer, Christopher Fiebig, Patrick Gerding, Kai Parow-Souchon, Anna Pongs, Matti Reiffenrath, Thomas Ziemann |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23 |
ISBN: | 978-3-642-34906-5 (Print) ; 978-3-642-34907-2 (E-Book) |
Parent Title (English): | Advances in solar sailing |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2014 |
First Page: | 351 |
Last Page: | 365 |
Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23 |
Zugriffsart: | bezahl |
Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik |
collections: | Verlag / Springer |