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A passive, sun-pointing, millimeter-scale solar sail

Atchison et al., 2010

Document ID
5433900167088665911
Author
Atchison J
Peck M
Publication year
Publication venue
Acta Astronautica

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Taking inspiration from the orbital dynamics of dust, we find that spacecraft length scaling is a means of enabling infinite-impulse orbits that require no feedback control. Our candidate spacecraft is a 25μm thick, 1cm square silicon chip equipped with signal transmitting …
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