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Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
Les Johnson, Nathan Barnes, Matteo Ceriotti +11
Solar sails enable missions to observe the solar environment from unique vantage points, such as sustained observations away from the Sun-Earth line; sub-L1 station keeping; high i…
Low-energy capture of asteroids onto KAM tori
Patricia E. Verrier, Colin R. McInnes
We present a new method for engineering the artificial capture of asteroids. Based on theories of the chaos-assisted capture of natural satellites of the giant planets, we show how…
Concept-of-Operations Disposal Analysis of Spacecraft by Gossamer Structure
Malcolm Macdonald, Colin McInnes, Charlotte Lücking Bewick +3
A gossamer structure for end-of-life disposal of spacecraft to mitigate space debris is considered in comparison with other end-of-life disposal concepts to determine when it would…
Periodic orbits for 3 and 4 co-orbital bodies
Patricia Verrier, Colin McInnes
We investigate the natural families of periodic orbits associated with the equilibrium configurations of the the planar restricted body problem for the case …
Passive Sorting of Asteroid Material Using Solar Radiation Pressure
Daniel García Yárnoz, Joan-Pau Sanchez, Colin R. McInnes
Understanding dust dynamics in the vicinity of asteroids is key for future science missions and, in the long-term, for asteroid exploitation. This paper analyzes the feasibility of…
A volume-based description of gas flows with localised mass-density variations
S. Kokou Dadzie, Jason M. Reese, Colin R. McInnes
We reconsider some fundamental aspects of the fluid mechanics model, and the derivation of continuum flow equations from gas kinetic theory. Two topologies for fluid representation…