caa a22 4500 467986908 CHVBK 20180323112534.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00049416 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00049416 The dynamics of solar sails with a non-point source of radiation pressure [Elektronische Daten] [Colin McInnes, John Brown] The form of the solar radiation pressure on a heliocentric orbiting solar sail is obtained for a finite angular sized and limb darkened solar disk by the use of the radiation pressure tensor. It is found that the usual inverse square variation of the solar radiation pressure is modified by the finite angular size, and to a lesser extent by the solar limb darkening. The actual magnitude of the modification is in itself small, except at close heliocentric distances. However, its existence has implications for the dynamical stability of solar sails both in parked and circular orbital configurations and for the accuracy of trajectory calculations, particularly for sails in the inner solar system. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Solar sails nationallicence radiation pressure nationallicence stability nationallicence McInnes Colin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Scotland aut Brown John Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Scotland aut Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/3(1990-09-01), 249-264 0923-2958 49:3<249 1990 49 10569 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049416 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049416 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McInnes Colin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Scotland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown John Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Scotland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/3(1990-09-01), 249-264 0923-2958 49:3<249 1990 49 10569 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer