Optical solar sail degradation modelling

Bernd Dachwald; Giovanni Mengali; Alessandro A. Quarta; Malcolm Macdonald; Colin R. McInnes

Optical solar sail degradation modelling

Bernd Dachwald, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta, Malcolm Macdonald, Colin R. McInnes

Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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We propose a simple parametric OSSD model that describes the variation of the sail film's optical coefficients with time, depending on the sail film's environmental history, i.e., the radiation dose. The primary intention of our model is not to describe the exact behavior of specific film-coating combinations in the real space environment, but to provide a more general parametric framework for describing the general optical degradation behavior of solar sails.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2007
Event	1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2007) - Herrsching, Germany Duration: 27 Jun 2007 → 29 Jun 2007

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Conference	1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2007)
City	Herrsching, Germany
Period	27/06/07 → 29/06/07

Keywords

solar sails
spacecraft
space
aerodynamics
modelling

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Optical solar sail degradation modelling

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