An intrinsic way to control E-sail spin
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2014-06-27 v1 Space Physics
Abstract
We show that by having the auxtethers made partly or completely of conducting material and by controlling their voltages, it is possible to control the spin rate of the electric solar wind sail by using the electric sail effect itself. The proposed intrinsic spin rate control scheme has enough control authority to overcome the secular change of the spin rate due to orbital Coriolis effect.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.6847,
title = {An intrinsic way to control E-sail spin},
author = {Pekka Janhunen and Petri Toivanen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6847},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics