Electric Sail for Spacecraft Propulsion

By Pekka Janhunen. 2004

272 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1fb9f158900e92338e6ddfd9ff5a21b0ad43988f

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. A. Sandroos
2. James Douglas Biggs
3. R. Mckay
4. Malcolm MacDonald
5. Colin R. McInnes

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. A. Sandroos
2. Colin R. McInnes
3. James Douglas Biggs
4. Malcolm MacDonald
5. R. Mckay
6. Pekka Janhunen

Citations in the corpus

• Survey of Highly Non-Keplerian Orbits with Low-Thrust Propulsion (2011, methodology): “One such system is that of Pekka Janhunen‟s electric sail [85] which is a method of propellantless propulsion that utilises the momentum flux of the solar wind.”
• Simulation study of solar wind push on a charged wire: basis of solar wind electric sail propulsion (2007, methodology): “Janhunen (pekka.janhunen@fmi.fi) space-only propulsion techniques such as electric propulsion (ion and plasma engines) and solar sails have gained popularity in recent years. Both mentioned techniques have been in principle known for a long time. Likewise, there is much research going on in terms of”