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Old October 21st 03, 04:06 AM
Vincent Cate
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Default Simulating Solar Sailing

I have added the ability to simulate solar sails to my simulator.
A solar sail is an interesting way to reboost a hanging tether
at GEO.

If anyone can point me to the results of some other solar sail
simulations for spiraling out of Earth orbit I would appreciate it.

See samples 73 and 74 in the Java applet at:

http://spacetethers.com/spacetethers.html

Some known limitations:
This simulator is only for Earth/Moon system really, so you can't
go as far as you might like with your solar sail.

I don't currently cut power when in shadow of the Earth. This
should change about as fast as this post gets out.

The solar sail can not be attached to a tether just yet.

If anyone wants to check over the source it is at:

http://spacetethers.com/source/solarsail.java

- Vince
 




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