In the past russia has launched some solar sails like Znamya so i think they had the data about the effect of light over the mirror.
In a conference about two years ago (you can see the presentations on the site of glasgow university) Astrium admit to use soem solar sail for AOCS ,i don't...
Light pressure has some effects.Just calculate the force and put it into the lagrange variationa equation to see the effect.
Basically for a satellite in orbit it gives a secular effect that push up off the orbit but it can be stabilized.
But you can also use light pressure for AOCS using a...
MPD are very good,high exhaust velocity and so you need very little gas to feed it,but the main problem is that you need a lot of power to have some newton of thrust.
I'm a new aerospace engineer thinking about specializing in one field.
My favourites are controls and propulsion(main electrical).
Which are in this period the areas that have more chance for a good career?
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