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Petri Toivanen, Pekka Janhunen, Jarmo Kivekäs and Meri Mäkelä
A new method of producing robust multi-wire tethers for Coulomb drag applications was developed. The multi-wire structure required for redundancy against the micrometeoroid flux of the space environment is realised through the method of wire twist bondin...
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Mario F. Palos, Pekka Janhunen, Petri Toivanen, Martin Tajmar, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Johan Kütt, Agnes Rohtsalu, Janis Dalbins, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Mihkel Pajusalu, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta, Nickolay Ivchenko, Joan Stude, Andris Vaivads, Antti Tamm and Andris Slavinskisadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a novel deep space propulsion concept which has not been demonstrated in space yet. While the solar wind is the authentic operational environment of the electric sail, its fundamentals can be demonstrated in th...
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Justin R. Mansell, John M. Bellardo, Bruce Betts, Barbara Plante and David A. Spencer
The propellantless thrust of solar sails makes them capable of entirely new classes of missions compared to conventional or electric engines. Initiated in 2010, the Planetary Society?s LightSail program sought to advance solar sail technology with the fl...
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Florio Dalla Vedova, Pierre Morin, Thibault Roux, Roberta Brombin, Alberto Piccinini and Nigel Ramsden
The paper introduces and describes the recent and still ongoing development activities performed in Luxembourg for In-Orbit Attach Mechanisms for (Drag) Sails Modules to be operated from Space Tugs. After some preparatory work aiming at understanding the...
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