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Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail)

   
 

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E-sail is cover article of Rev.Sci.Instrum Nov 2010 issue

Scientific papers

  1. Janhunen, P., Electric sail for spacecraft propulsion, J. Prop. Power, 20, 763-764, 2004.
  2. Janhunen, P. and A. Sandroos, Simulation study of solar wind push on a charged wire: basis of solar wind electric sail propulsion, Ann. Geophys., 25, 755-767, 2007.
  3. Mengali, G., A. Quarta and P. Janhunen, Electric sail perfromance analysis, J. Spacecr. Rockets, 45, 122-129, 2008.
  4. Janhunen, P., The electric sail - a new propulsion method which may enable fast missions to the outer solar system, J. British Interpl. Soc., 61, 8, 322-325, 2008.
  5. Mengali, G., A. Quarta and P. Janhunen, Considerations of electric sail trajectory design, J. British Interpl. Soc., 61, 8, 326-329, 2008.
  6. Mengali, G. and A. Quarta, Non-Keplerian orbits for electric sails, Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron., 105, 179-195, doi:10.1007/s10569-009-9200-y, 2009.
  7. Janhunen, P., On the feasibility of a negative polarity electric sail, Ann. Geophys., 27, 1439-1447, 2009.
  8. Toivanen, P.K. and P. Janhunen, Electric sailing under observed solar wind conditions, Astrophys. Space Sci. Trans., 5, 61-69, 2009.
  9. Janhunen, P., Increased electric sail thrust through removal of trapped shielding electrons by orbit chaotisation due to spacecraft body, Ann. Geophys., 27, 3089-3100, 2009.
  10. Janhunen, P., Electrostatic plasma brake for deorbiting a satellite, J. Prop. Power, 26, 370-372, 2010.
  11. Quarta, A.A. and G. Mengali, Electric sail mission analysis for outer solar system exploration, J. Guid. Contr. Dyn., 33, 740-755, 2010.
  12. Quarta, A.A. and G. Mengali, Electric sail missions to potentially hazardous asteroids, Acta Astronaut., 66, 1506-1519, 2010.
  13. Quarta, A.A., G. Mengali and P. Janhunen, Optimal interplanetary rendezvous combining electric sail and high thrust propulsion system, Acta Astronaut., doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.01.024, 2010.
  14. Janhunen, P., P.K. Toivanen, J. Polkko, S. Merikallio, P. Salminen, E. Haeggström, H. Seppänen, R. Kurppa, J. Ukkonen, S. Kiprich, G. Thornell, H. Kratz, L. Richter, O. Krömer, R. Rosta, M. Noorma, J. Envall, S. Lätt, G. Mengali, A.A. Quarta, H. Koivisto, O. Tarvainen, T. Kalvas, J. Kauppinen, A. Nuottajärvi and A. Obraztsov, Electric solar wind sail: Towards test missions (Invited article), Rev. Sci. Instrum., 81, 111301, 2010
  15. Merikallio, S. and P. Janhunen, Moving and asteroid with electric solar wind sail, Astrophys. Space Sci. Trans., 6, 41-48, 2010
  16. Seppänen, H., Kiprich, S., Kurppa, R., Janhunen, P. and Haeggström, E., Wire-to-wire bonding of um-diameter aluminum wires for the Electric Solar Wind Sail, Microelectronic Engineering, 88, 3267-3269, 2011

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