Fast Solar Sailing : Astrodynamics of Special Sailcraft Trajectories - Vulpetti, Giovanni; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Part I A Review of Rocket Spacecraft Trajectories -- 1 Some General Rocket Features -- Part II Sailing in Space Environment -- 2 The Sun as Power Source for Spaceflight -- 3 Sailcraft Concepts -- 4 Solar Sails in Interplanetary Environment -- Part III Sailcraft Trajectories -- 5 Fundamentals of Sailcraft Trajectory -- 6 Modeling Light-Induced Thrust -- 7 The Theory of Fast Solar Sailing -- Part IV Advanced Aspects -- 8 Approach to SPS Trajectory Optimization -- 9 Advanced Features in Solar-Photon Sailing -- References -- Index.
Keywords: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Space sciences; Physics; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation