Solar sail launch system and solar sail attitude control system

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2011-03-29

2011-03-29

Dinh, Tien (Department: 3644)

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

Modular and assembled in space

C244S168000, C244S172600

Reexamination Certificate

active

07913953

ABSTRACT:
Fuel less ACS for solar sails, using furl- and unfurl able ballast-sail-foil-segments for simultaneously displacement of center of mass and center of solar radiation pressure into opposite directions to each other.Solar-Sail-Launch-System for direct launch of the System-Sail including already docked in daughter units and payload in the sailcraft's central docking station.Unlike todays launch able solar sail designs the System-Sail features ample solar cell arrays and additional SEP-thruster-units for steering and propulsion, while the solar sail rather serves for longtime fuel less attitude controls and station keeping.The SEP-Sailcraft may also serve as a carrier-ship for daughter-units in asteroid exploration missions and is able to deliver prospector landers back to LEO with furled in foils.

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