Electric Sail Mission Expeditor, ESME: Software Architecture and Initial ESTCube Lunar Cubesat E-Sail Experiment Design

Electric Sail Mission Expeditor, ESME: Software Architecture and Initial ESTCube Lunar Cubesat E-Sail Experiment Design

The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a novel deep space propulsion concept which has not been demonstrated in space yet. While the solar wind is the authentic operational environment of the electric sail, its fundamentals can be demonstrated in the ionosphere where the E-sail can be used as a...

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Main Authors: Mario F. Palos, Pekka Janhunen, Petri Toivanen, Martin Tajmar, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Johan Kütt, Agnes Rohtsalu, Janis Dalbins, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Mihkel Pajusalu, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro A. Quarta, Nickolay Ivchenko, Joan Stude, Andris Vaivads, Antti Tamm, Andris Slavinskis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Aerospace
Subjects:
electric propulsion
electric sail
solar wind propulsion
Coulomb drag
lunar mission
ESTCube lunar nanospacecraft
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/8/694

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