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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Surrey

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Article title

CubeSail: A low cost CubeSat based solar sail demonstration mission

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.asr.2011.05.033

Title of journal

Advances in Space Research

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

1890

ISSN of journal

02731177

Year of publication

2011

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Additional information

This paper describes the design of a low cost 3-axis solar sail and drag break mission to be launched in August 2013. Cubesail will be the first 3-axis control solar sail to be orbited and will be the first demonstration of a 3-axis drag break for end-of-life satellite deorbiting. CubeSail has led to significant follow-up projects such as ESA’s first deorbiting system: ESA Gossamer Sail, and the EU-FP7 funded DEORBITSAIL and InflateSAIL/DEPLOYTECH projects. The impact of CubeSail is already significant as it has led to the first active debris removal concept currently being evaluated by the European Commission for implementation.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

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None

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