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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437765503321

Autore

Vulpetti Giovanni

Titolo

Fast solar sailing : astrodynamics of special sailcraft trajectories / / Giovanni Vulpetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-91117-5

94-007-4777-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Space technology library

Disciplina

629.4754

Soggetti

Solar sails

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. A review of rocket spacecraft trajectories -- pt. II. Sailing in space environment -- pt. III. Sailcraft trajectories -- pt. IV. Advanced aspects.

Sommario/riassunto

The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propellantless propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are unviable using near or medium-term rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric. Fast and very fast solar sailings are special classes of sailcraft missions, initially developed only in the first half of the 1990s and still evolving, especially after the latest advances in nanotechnology.   This book describes how to plan, compute and optimize the trajectories of sailcraft with speeds considerably higher than the Earth’s orbital speed (30 km/s); such sailcraft would be able to explore the outer heliosphere, the near interstellar medium and the solar gravitational lens (550-800 astronomical units) in times significantly shorter than the span of an average career (~ 35 years), just to cite a few examples. The scientific interest in this type of exploration is huge.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143539403321

Titolo

IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : IEEE Computer Society, ©2004-

ISSN

1557-9964

Disciplina

572

Soggetti

Computational biology

Bioinformatics

Computational Biology

Bio-informatique

Biologia computacional

Bioinformàtica

Periodicals.

Revistes electròniques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from PDF cover (IEEE Xplore, viewed Jan. 28, 2005).