4028 Optimal Transfer Orbit of a Geostationary Satellite by Solar Sail
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The concepts of solar sail have been proposed for a long time. Solar sail is a propulsion system that changes the sunlight into the thrust of the spaceship. Because solar sail doesn't need fuel consumption and it is very lightweight, it attracts attention widely and some studies have been done. In this study, earth circular trajectories are considered and the number of circulars is used as an independent variable for improving the accuracy of optimization calculation. To be concrete, the issue of the satellite injection into the geostationary orbit is discussed. By using optimal transfer trajectories that maximize semimajor axis in one revolution, a new effective injection method was proposed
