Frozen orbits for a solar sail around Mercury

Tresaco Vidaller, Eva ; Elipe, Antonio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Carvalho, Jean Paulo S.

Resumen: THIS Note provides a method for finding initial conditions for frozen orbits for a solar sail around Mercury. The use of propellantless propulsion systems like solar sails attracts the interest for scientific missions. Solar sails offer new challenging spacescience missions. They are considered for having artificial equilibrium points ; these displaced periodic orbits near libration points can be used, for example, as an alert of geomagnetic storms. They allow to achieve long residence times in orbit [6], and they also make feasible new observation missions based on the computation of geocentric sun-synchronous frozen orbits

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.2514/1.G001510

Año: 2016

Publicado en: JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS 39, 7 (2016), 1657-1664
ISSN: 0731-5090

Factor impacto JCR: 1.856 (2016)

Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE rank: 5 / 31 = 0.161 (2016) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION rank: 22 / 58 = 0.379 (2016) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.181 - Aerospace Engineering (Q1) - Applied Mathematics (Q1) - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q1) - Control and Systems Engineering (Q1) - Space and Planetary Science (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ESP2013-44217-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/CUD2013-15

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Matemática Aplicada (Dpto. Matemática Aplicada)