Realistic Earth escape strategies for solar sailing [PDF]
, 2005 With growing interest in solar sailing comes the requirement to provide a basis for future detailed planetary escape mission analysis by drawing together prior work, clarifying and explaining previously anomalies.
Macdonald, Malcolm, McInnes, Colin R.
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Solar sailing: mission applications and engineering challenges [PDF]
, 2003 Solar sailing is emerging as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion, which can enable exciting new space-science mission concepts. By exploiting the momentum transported by solar photons, solar sails can perform high-energy orbit transfer ...
McInnes, Colin +3 more
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Solar Sailing: applications and technology advancement [PDF]
, 2011 Harnessing the power of the Sun to propel a spacecraft may appear somewhat ambitious and the observation that light exerts a force contradicts everyday experiences.
Macdonald, Malcolm
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Solar sail capture trajectories at Mercury [PDF]
, 2002 Mercury is an ideal environment for future planetary exploration by solar sail since it has proved difficult to reach with conventional propulsion and hence remains largely unexplored.
Macdonald, Malcolm +5 more
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Summary of the Third International Planetary Dunes Workshop: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis of Planetary Dunes, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, June 12-15, 2012 [PDF]
, 2013 The Third International Planetary Dunes Workshop took place in Flagstaff, AZ, USA during June 12-15, 2012. This meeting brought together a diverse group of researchers to discuss recent advances in terrestrial and planetary research on aeolian bedforms.
Yizhaq, Hezi +24 more
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Microlensing search for extra solar planets [PDF]
, 2015 Gravitational microlensing may be used to probe distant stars for planetary companions. The presence of a planet in the vicinity of a star acting as the lens may cause a short lived anomaly in the observed lightcurve of the lensing event.
Tsapras, Yiannis
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Solar sail science mission applications and advancement : solar sailing: concepts, technology, missions [PDF]
, 2011 Solar sailing has long been envisaged as an enabling or disruptive technology. The promise of open-ended missions allows consideration of radically new trajectories and the delivery of spacecraft to previously unreachable or unsustainable observation ...
Macdonald, Malcolm, McInnes, Colin
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Orbital dynamics of high area-to-mass ratio spacecraft under the influence of J2 and solar radiation pressure [PDF]
, 2011 This paper investigates the effect of planetary oblateness and solar radiation pressure on the orbit of high area-to-mass spacecraft. A planar Hamiltonian model shows the existence of equilibrium orbits with the orbit apogee pointing towards or away from
Colombo, Camilla +2 more
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Mars climate engineering using orbiting solar reflectors [PDF]
, 2009 The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars's natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration ...
Colin R. McInnes +2 more
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Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere [PDF]
, 2012 The effect of solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag on the orbital dynamics of satellites-on-a-chip (SpaceChips) is exploited to design equatorial long-lived orbits about the oblate Earth.
Colombo, Camilla, McInnes, Colin
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