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Solar sails are satellites that use light to navigate in space. We study controllability (capability of arbitrarily changing the orbit) of a solar sail in orbit around a celestial body, which depends, as we show, on its optical properties.
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This page is a summary of: Controllability Properties of Solar Sails, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, May 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/1.g007250.
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