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In this study, a solar sail is modeled as smooth curved surfaces and the total force and moment models for the deformed sails are investigated, and two different forms of the models, namely the tensor expressions and the parameterized expressions, are proposed. Both forms can describe the total force and moment off-line by using the constant coefficient tensors or coefficient matrix correspondingly. Besides, some other properties as a result of deformation such as the sail mass center are also discussed. Thus this work paves the way for sail craft’s precise navigation and control where exact forces are needed.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11272004) and China’s civil space funding.
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Jing, H., Shengping, G., Junfeng, L., Yufei, L. (2014). The Solar Radiation Pressure Force Models for a General Sail Surface Shape. In: Macdonald, M. (eds) Advances in Solar Sailing. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_30
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