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Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение, 2021 An analysis of the mass of the working fluid and motor operating time of electric propulsion systems applied as a part of small spacecraft to carry out maneuvers of maintenance of the low Earth working orbit is carried out.
V. V. Salmin +2 more
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The View of Micropropulsion Technology for China’s Advanced Small Platforms in Deep Space
Space: Science & Technology, 2022 In this paper, micropropulsion systems are analyzed in conjunction with the various mission requirements of China’s deep space exploration. As a great challenge facing the world, deep space exploration can be enabled only in a few countries with a ...
Yanming Wei +9 more
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Status and Prospect of Spacecraft Propulsion System
, 2016 Su-Kyum Kim +3 more
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Optimal Circle-to-Ellipse Orbit Transfer for Sun-Facing E-Sail
Aerospace, 2022 The transfer between two coplanar Keplerian orbits of a spacecraft with a continuous-thrust propulsion system is a classical problem of astrodynamics, in which a numerical procedure is usually employed to find the transfer trajectory that optimizes (i.e.,
Alessandro A. Quarta +3 more
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Electric solar wind sail mass budget model [PDF]
Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 2013 The electric solar wind sail (E-sail) is a new type of propellantless propulsion system for Solar System transportation, which uses the natural solar wind to produce spacecraft propulsion.
P. Janhunen, A. A. Quarta, G. Mengali
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Optimal Interplanetary Transfer of Solar Wind Ion Focusing Thruster-Based Spacecraft
Applied Sciences, 2023 The Solar Wind Ion Focusing Thruster (SWIFT) is a highly-innovative propellantless propulsion concept, recently proposed by Gemmer and Mazzoleni. In its nominal configuration, a SWIFT consists of a conically-shaped mesh of positively-charged conducting ...
Alessandro A. Quarta +3 more
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Designing displaced lunar orbits using low-thrust propulsion [PDF]
, 2010 The design of spacecraft trajectories is a crucial task in space mission design. Solar sail technology appears as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion which can enable exciting new space science mission concepts such as solar system ...
Colin R. McInnes +9 more
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IEEE Access, 2023 Ion electric propulsion systems have been widely used in satellite station keeping, attitude control, and orbit transfer due to their advantages of high specific impulse, good flexibility, and high reliability.
Zheng Peng +5 more
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Solar Sails : Technology and demonstration status [PDF]
, 2012 Solar Sail propulsion has been validated in space (IKAROS, 2012) and soon several more solar-sail propelled spacecraft will be flown. Using sunlight for spacecraft propulsion is not a new idea.
Barnes, Nathan +5 more
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Efficiency of using electric propulsion engines for the task of keeping in a near-circular orbit
Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение, 2016 The paper deals with the problem of choosing the type and the main design parameters of the correcting propulsion system of spacecraft functioning in low near-circular Earth orbits.
S. A. Ishkov
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