Design and Applications of Solar Sail Periodic Orbits in the Non-Autonomous Earth-Moon System

• Main Authors: Heiligers, M.J. (author), Macdonald, Malcolm (author), Parker, Jeffrey S. (author)
• Other Authors: Turner, J.D. (editor), Wawrzyniak, G.G. (editor), Cerven, W.T. (editor), Majji, M. (editor)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Bifur; Lagrange; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2e52eb9a-cacd-4eb0-b5f2-c45c9546c744

Solar sailing has great potential for a range of high-energy and long duration mis-sions in the Sun-Earth system. This paper extends this potential to the non-autonomous Earth-Moon system through the use of a differential correction scheme, and by selecting suitable in-plane and out-of-plane sail st...