Solar sail

NanoSail-D: A solar sail demonstration mission

Les Johnson, Mark Whorton, Andy Heaton, Robin Pinson, Greg Laue, Charles Adams

Citations: 336 • 2010

Status of solar sail technology within NASA

Les Johnson, Roy Young, Edward Montgomery, Dean C. Alhorn

Citations: 128 • 2010

European Sail Tower SPS concept

W. Seboldt, Martin Klimke, M. Leipold, Nicolaus Hanowski

Citations: 117 • 2001

Dynamic/control interactions between flexible orbiting space-robot during grasping, docking and post-docking manoeuvres

Paolo Gasbarri, Andrea Pisculli

Citations: 53 • 2015

Inflatable robotics for planetary applications

Jack A. Jones

Citations: 45 • 2001

Recent advances in solar sail propulsion systems at NASA

Les Johnson, Roy Young, Edward Montgomery

Citations: 35 • 2007

Deep Space Propulsion

K. F. Long

Citations: 32 • 2011

Radioisotope electric propulsion of sciencecraft to the outer solar system and near-interstellar space

R. Noble

Citations: 28 • 1999

Formation control of multi-robots for on-orbit assembly of large solar sails

Quan Hu, Yao Zhang, Jingrui Zhang, Haiyan Hu

Citations: 25 • 2015

Centauri dreams: imagining and planning interstellar exploration

Citations: 19 • 2005

Modular inflatable space structures

Aman Chandra, Jekan Thangavelautham, Alessandra Babuscia

Citations: 16 • 2018

Propulsion options for interstellar exploration

Les Johnson, Stephanie Leifer

Citations: 11 • 2000

Linear time-varying state transition matrix for spacecraft relative dynamics on highly elliptical orbits

Yazan Chihabi, Steve Ulrich

Citations: 9 • 2022

The Solar Sail as Planetary Aerobrake

Gregory L. Matloff

Citations: 8 • 2003

Applications of magnetic sails

Stanley G. Love, Dawn Andrews

Citations: 7 • 1992

Demonstration of charge-hold-vent (CHV) and no-vent-fill (NVF) in a simulated propellent storage tank during tank-to-tank cryogen transfer in microgravity

J.N. Chung, Jun Dong, Hao Wang, Bo Huang, Jason Hartwig

Citations: 5 • 2024

E-Sail Optimal Trajectories to Heliostationary Points

Alessandro A. Quarta, Giovanni Mengali

Citations: 5 • 2023

Deployable SMA-Based Light Solar Sail Prototype

Sourav Karmakar, Anand Kumar Mishra

Citations: 5 • 2021

In-Space Propulsion Technologies for Robotic Exploration of the Solar System

Les Johnson, Rae Ann Meyer, Kyle L. Frame

Citations: 5 • 2006

Inflatable solar sails for low-cost robotic Mars missions

Robert Frisbee, John Brophy

Citations: 5 • 1997