Solar sail technology has been proposed and developed for space explorations with
advantages of low launch cost, no-propellant consumption, and continuous thrust, which has …

This paper reviews solar sail trajectory design and dynamics, attitude control, and structural
dynamics. Within the area of orbital dynamics, methods relevant to transfer trajectory design …

The recent successes of demonstration missions based on solar sail technology have paved
the way for designing new mission scenarios with propellantless propulsion systems. In this …

Propellantless propulsion systems allow innovative mission scenarios to be envisaged,
including the generation and the stabilization of artificial equilibrium points in the circular …

A gravity tractor spacecraft propelled by a diffractive sail tracking a displaced orbit offers a
potential option for deflecting near-Earth asteroids. This study delves into the preliminary …

This paper explores the capability of solar sails to transfer a probe from the displaced Sun-
Earth L 1 and L 2 libration points to the region of practical stability (RPS) around the …

This paper introduces a new type of diffractive solar sail composed of liquid crystal optical
phased arrays, which control the thrust through electric modulation. The main feature of the …

Traveling to outer space has long fascinated humanity, but the astronomical distances
restrain us within our solar system. Laser-driven spacecraft is a promising candidate for …

Active attitude control of solar sails is required to control the direction of the force generated
by Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP). It is desirable to control the attitude through propellant …

This paper analyzes the performance of an Electric Solar Wind Sail for generating and
maintaining an elliptic, heliocentric, displaced non-Keplerian orbit. In this sense, this paper …