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Classification of solar sail attitude dynamics with and without angular momentum*

Show Author's Information Yuichi Tsuda1( ),  Go Ono2,  Yuya Mimasu1
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan
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stability, solar sail, attitude dynamics, solar system exploration
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Tsuda Y, Ono G, Mimasu Y. Classification of solar sail attitude dynamics with and without angular momentum*. Astrodynamics, 2019, 3(3): 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42064-018-0045-6
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This paper describes attitude dynamics properties of spinning, momentum-biased and zero-momentum solar sail spacecraft. The model called "Generalized Sail Dynamics Model" (GSDM) is introduced, which can deal with general and practical sail configurations, such as arbitrary optical property distribution, shape and surface wrinkles. Attitude stability criteria and other key dynamical characteristics are derived and compared by compact analytical equations induced from the GSDM. The newly derived zero-momentum sail dynamics is compared with that of spinning and momentum-biased sails. It is shown that the spinning and momentum sails have an advantage in terms of dynamical stability whereas zero-momentum sails are only statically stable. With this special property, angular momentum-stabilized sails can realize a Sun-pointing stable attitude with almost zero-fuel, which are discussed with actual space flight experience of the JAXA’s two interplanetary missions, IKAROS and Hayabusa2.


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Classification of solar sail attitude dynamics with and without angular momentum*

Show Author's information Yuichi Tsuda1( ), Go Ono2, Yuya Mimasu1
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara 252-5210, Japan

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This paper describes attitude dynamics properties of spinning, momentum-biased and zero-momentum solar sail spacecraft. The model called "Generalized Sail Dynamics Model" (GSDM) is introduced, which can deal with general and practical sail configurations, such as arbitrary optical property distribution, shape and surface wrinkles. Attitude stability criteria and other key dynamical characteristics are derived and compared by compact analytical equations induced from the GSDM. The newly derived zero-momentum sail dynamics is compared with that of spinning and momentum-biased sails. It is shown that the spinning and momentum sails have an advantage in terms of dynamical stability whereas zero-momentum sails are only statically stable. With this special property, angular momentum-stabilized sails can realize a Sun-pointing stable attitude with almost zero-fuel, which are discussed with actual space flight experience of the JAXA’s two interplanetary missions, IKAROS and Hayabusa2.

Keywords: stability, solar sail, attitude dynamics, solar system exploration

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Received: 28 November 2018
Accepted: 02 February 2019
Published: 16 July 2019
Issue date: September 2019

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© Tsinghua University Press 2019

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. JP26289325, JP18H01628).

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