This paper presents two technology experiments–the plasma brake for deorbiting and the
electric solar wind sail for interplanetary propulsion–on board the ESTCube-2 and …

The dynamics and control strategies of a full-scale flexible electric solar wind sail (E-sail)
spacecraft are studied in this work. The configuration of the E-sail is an umbrella shape …

This paper presents the mission analysis, requirements, system design, system level test
results, as well as mass and power budgets of a 1-unit CubeSat ESTCube-1 built to perform …

The shape of a rotating electric solar wind sail under the centrifugal force and solar wind
dynamic pressure is modeled to address the sail attitude maintenance and thrust vectoring …

This paper studies the dynamic characteristics of an electric solar wind sail (E-sail). A high-
fidelity multiphysics model is developed by the nodal position finite element method to …

This paper studies the flight dynamics and control strategy for electric solar wind sails based
on the nodal position finite element method, where the coupling effects between tether …

The scientific mission of ESTCube-1, launched in May 2013, is to measure the Electric solar
wind sail (E-sail) force in orbit. The experiment is planned to push forward the development …

This paper presents an overview and the current status of hosting the electrostatic plasma
brake (EPB) experiment onboard the Finnish Aalto-1 satellite. The goal of the experiment is …

We propose a distributed close-range survey of hundreds of asteroids representing many
asteroid families, spectral types and sizes. This can be implemented by a fleet of …

In this study, the effects of solar wind on an electric sail (E-sail) are modeled and analyzed
using an absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF). First, the thrust of the charged metal …