Attitude Dynamics and Stability of a Simple Solar Photon Thruster

Anna D. Guerman, Georgi Smirnov and Maria Cecilia Pereira

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-7

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This paper is dedicated to the development of a model of the attitude dynamics for a nonideal Simple Solar Photon Thruster (SSPT) and to the analysis of sailcraft motions with respect to their centre of mass. Derivation of the expressions for force and torque due to solar radiation that is valid for the case, when there is a misalignment of the SSPT axis with the sun direction, is followed by study of sailcraft dynamics and stability properties. Analysis of stability shows that an ideally reflecting sail is unstable, while for a sailcraft with nonideal collector, the symmetry axis is stable with respect to the Sun direction for large variety of system parameters. The motion around symmetry axis is always unstable and requires an active stabilizer.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/943107

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