The 6th International Symposium on Space Sailing
June 5-9, 2023, New York, NY USA
Presenters Presentation
Roman Kezerashvili Welcome Remarks
Pekka Janhunen Coulomb drag propulsion
Osamu Mori, Masanori Matsushita, Ahmed Kiyoshi Sugihara, Yuki Takao, Toshihiro Chujo, Yasuyuki Miyazaki, Yasutaka Satou, Nobukatsu Okuizumi, Hiraku Sakamoto, Ryu Funase, Naoya Ozaki, Yuki Kubo, Akihito Watanabe New Solar Power Sail Program in the Post-OKEANOS Era
Les Johnson, Carlos Diaz, Leslie McNutt, Danny Tyler, Darren Wallace, Jeff Wilson The NASA Solar Cruiser Solar Sail System — Ready for Heliophysics and Deep Space Missions
W. Keats Wilkie LightSail 2 Image-Based Engineering Assessment
Piotr Fil, Gil Barbosa Ribeiro, Debdut Sengupta, Beatriz Soriano Tortosa Research for and Early-Stage Development of the First Interstellar CubeSat Powered by Solar Sailing Technology
Bruce H. Betts, John M. Bellardo, Justin R. Mansell, Barbara Plante, David A. Spencer LightSail 2 Image-Based Engineering Assessment
Justin R. Mansell, John M. Bellardo, Bruce H. Betts, Barbara Plante, David A. Spencer. LightSail 2 Orbit Evolution and Attitude Control Performance
Andrew Nutter, Constantin Bauda, Jordan Culeux, Marco Straubel, Martin E. Zander, Martin Hillebrandt Objectives, Design and Initial Test Results of the Upcoming GAMA-β Solar Sail In-Orbit Demonstration
Andrew Heaton Near Earth Asteroid Scout Solar Sail Mission Overview
Andres Dono, Ted Hendriks, Keats Wilkie ACS3 — Flight Dynamics for a Solar Sail Technology Demonstration Mission
Giovanni Vulpetti, Christian Circi, Rocco Pellegrini, Enrico Cavallini Sailcraft Helianthus: a Solar-Photon Sail for Geostorm Early Warning
Yuki Takao, Osamu Mori, Masanori Matsushita, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Ryudo Tsukizaki, Kuniyoshi Tabata, Naoya Ozaki, Yuki Kubo, Ryu Funase A Rendezvous Mission to Outer Solar System Bodies Using a 100-kg-class Solar Power Sail
Gregory L. Maloff, Les Johnson Breakthrough Sun Diving: The Rectilinear Option
Iain Moore, Onur Çelik, Temitayo Oderinwale, Litesh Sulbhewar, Colin R. McInnes SOLSPACE Solar Reflectors: Commonalities with Solar Sailing
Juan Fernandez Scalability of Solar Sail Designs using Deployable Thin-Shell Composite Booms
Marco Straubel, Martin Hillebrandt, Martin E. Zander Modular and Scalable Boom Deployment Mechanism for Deployment and Retraction of up to four CTMs
Roman Kezerashvili, Vladimir Kezerashvili Ways to Deploy a Large Size Solar Sail
Zachary McConnel, Brian Sanders, Anan Takoori, Jim Pearson, Carlos Diaz, Ashley Benson Test of a Full-Scale Quadrant for the 1,653 m2 Solar Cruiser Sail
James C. Pearson, Jr. , Kirk Maddox, Mark Johnson, Seth A. Gipson, Les Johnson, Leslie McNutt Development of a Flight-Like Solar Sail Quadrant for NASA's Solar Cruiser
Andrew Heaton, Saba Ramathani, Daniel Tyler Reflectivity Control Device Roll Momentum Management for Solar Cruiser and Beyond
John Inness, Daniel Tyler, Benjamin Diedrich, Saba Ramazani, Juan Orphee Momentum Management Strategies for Solar Cruiser and Beyond
Amber Dubill, Grover Swartzlander, Les Johnson Next in Solar Sail Technology: Diffractive Solar Sailing
Bernd Dachwald, Frederic Schoutetens, Jeannette Heiligers Optimal Capture of an Interstellar High-Velocity Photon Sail in the Alpha Centauri System
Elena Ancona, Roman Kezerashvili Mission to Sedna with a Solar Sail Exploiting Thermal Desorption of Coatings
Tim Rotmans Photon-sail Trajectories to Exoplanet Proxima b Using Heteroclinic Connections
Olga L. Starinova, Miroslav A. Rozhkov, Bakhyt Alipova Long-term Mission of The Spacecraft with a Degrading Solar Sail into the Asteroid Belt
Matteo Ceriotti, Giulia Viavattene, Andrea Caruso, Giovanni Mengali, Alessandro Quarta Advances in Preliminary Solar-Sail Trajectory Design
Alesia Herasimenka, Lamberto Dell'Elce, Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Jean-Baptiste Pomet Controllability of Solar Sails
Christian Bianchi, Lorenzo Niccolai, Giovanni Mengali, Matteo Ceriotti Blended Locally-optimal Control Laws for Space Debris Removal in LEO Using a Solar Sail
Livio Carzana, W. Keats Wilkie, Andrew Heaton, Ben Diedrich, Jeannette Heiligers Solar-sail Steering Laws to Calibrate the Accelerations from Solar Radiation Pressure, Planetary Radiation Pressure, and Aerodynamic Drag
Benjamin Gauvain, Daniel Tyler A Solar Sail Shape Modeling Approach for Attitude Control Design and Analysis
Grover A. Swartzlander, Prateek R. Srivastava, Ryan M. Crum, Qing Wang, Aaron M. Becker, Amber L. Dubill, Joseph A. Miragliotta, David B. Shrekenhamer, Christine M. Zgrabik, David E. Roberts, Anna M. Tabirian, Les Johnson, Andy Heaton A Comparison of Diffractive Films for Solar Sailing
Hanseong Jo, Tom Joly-Jehenne, Evy Haynes, Ho-Ting Tung, Artur Davoyan Advanced Approaches to Solar Sailing
Tommaso Casati, Bernd Dachwald, Joe Zender, Anna Milillo, Francesco Topputo Trajectory Design for a Solar Sail Mercury Impactor
Jan Thimo Grundmann, Laura Borella, Ross Centers, Matteo Ceriotti, Suditi Chand, Bernd Dachwald, Sebastian Fexer, Christian D. Grimm, Matthias Grott, Jeffrey Hendrikse, David Herčík, Alain Hérique, Tra-Mi Ho, Robert G. Kennedy III, Christian Krause, Caroline Lange, Roy Lichtenheldt, Iain Moore, Ivanka Pelivan, Dirk Plettemeier, Dominik Quantius, Patric Seefeldt, Fabienne Seibert Bridging the Gaps between the CubeSat Trend, Sailcraft-specific Requirements, Complex Deployment Tasks, and Interplanetary Space
Amirul Fiqri Abdullah, Bernd Dachwald, Yew-Chung Chak, Koju Hiraki, Letícia Barros, Renuganth Varatharajoo Global Trajectory Optimization for Solar-Sail Propelled Mercury Rendezvous and Impact Missions
Miroslav A. Rozhkov, Olga L. Starinova Cyclic Interplanetary Motion of a Cargo Solar Sail
Benjamin Diedrich Solar Sail Torque Model Characterization for the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout Mission
Tom Sproewitz, Patric Seefeldt, Siebo Reershemius, Nicolas Woods, Marta Tokarz, Jerzy Grygorczuk, Piotr Torchala, Dominik Nolbert, Tim Kubera Highly Efficient Membrane-based Photovoltaic Array for Solar Sailing Missions
Ryan J. Caverly, Keegan Bunker, Nathan Raab, Vinh L. Nguyen, Garvin Saner, Zixin Chen, Tyler Douvier, Richard J. Lyman, Owen Sorby, Benjamin Sorge, Ebise Teshale, Benjamin Toriseva Solar Sail Attitude Control Using Shape Modulation: The Cable-Actuated Bio-inspired Lightweight Elastic Solar Sail Concept
Les Johnson, Jeannette Heiligers, Dana Turse, Patric Seefeldt, Bernd Dachwald, Ross Centers, Claudia Wieners, Behnam Taebi, Ben Kravitz, Jan Thimo Grundmann Planetary Sunshades for Solar Radiation Management: A Noninvasive, Feasible, and Affordable Climate Emergency Insurance Option
Livio Carzana, Pieter Visser, Jeannette Heiligers A New Model for the Planetary Radiation Pressure Acceleration for Optical Solar Sails
Bruce Campbell Factoring Force Uncertainty into Solar Sail Mission Planning
Jin Ho Kang, Keith Gordon, Robert Bryant, W. Keats Wilkie, Kim de Groh, Olive Stohlman, Juan Fernandez, Jerry Warren, Gregory Dean, Nigel Schneider, Todd Denkins, Stark Amanda, Phillip Brown, Matthew Chamberlain Space Environmental Damage Assessment on Sail/Deorbit Materials in Low Earth Orbit
Erik M. Klein, Patric Seefeldt, Maciej Sznajder Solar Sail Propulsion Limitations Due to Hydrogen Blistering: Progression of Reflectance Decrease
Ilhan Tuzcu A Reduced-Order Model for the Dynamics of a Flexible Solar Sail
Zitong Lin, Matteo Ceriotti, Colin McInnes Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Asteroid Hovering by Solar Sailing: Application to 433 Eros
Joshua Umansky-Castro, Corbin Heywood Development of Gram-Scale Flight Computers for Free-Flying Light Sail Demonstration in LEO
Yuki Takao, Osamu Mori, Shota Kikuchi, Yusuke Oki, Ahmed Kiyoshi Sugihara, Tetsuya Kusumoto Constellation Around Small Bodies Using Spinning Solar Sails Under Simultaneous Orbit-Attitude-Structure Control
Juan Garcia-Bonilla, Livio Carzana, Jeannette Heiligers Uncertainty quantification for solar sails in the near-Earth environment
Daniel Stelzl, Patric Seefeldt, Matthias Killian, Leonard Hofmann, German Puttich, Xenia Lopez-Corralez, Carlos Garcia Mora, Jannik Pimpi, Manuel Schuhbaur, Olaf Stolz, Peter Lindenmaier, Tom Spröwitz, Tiziana Cardone, Ernst K. Pfeiffer The ADEO Space Sail Products
Gyula Greschik A New Tethered Sail Architecture: the Solar Kite
Gregor MacAskill, Nektarios Chari, Joe Gibbs, Matteo Ceriotti Design and Analysis of a Quasi-Rhombic Pyramid Drag Sail for Passive Attitude Control and De-Orbit of OirthirSAT
Lorenzo Niccolai Optimal Deep-Space Heliocentric Transfers with An Electric Sail and an Electric Thruster

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Presenters Presentation
Piotr Fil, Gil Barbosa Ribeiro, Debdut Sengupta, Beatriz Soriano Tortosa Research for and Early Stage Development of the First Interstellar CubeSat Powered by Solar Sailing Technology
Zachary McConnel, Brian Sanders, Anan Takroori, Craig Hazelton, Jim Pearson, Carlos Diaz, Ashley Benson Test of a Full-Scale Quadrant for the 1,653m2 Solar Cruiser Sail
Kirk Maddox, James C. Pearson, Jr., Les Johnson, Leslie McNutt Development of a Flight-Like Solar Sail Quadrant for NASA's Solar Cruiser
John Inness, Daniel Tyler, Benjamin Diedrich, Saba Ramazani, Juan Orphee Momentum Management Strategies for Solar Cruiser and Beyond
Tim J. Rotmans, Jeannette Heiligers Photon-Sail Trajectories Towards Exoplanet Proxima b
Bakhyt N. Alipova, Olga L. Starinova, Miroslav A. Rozhkov Long-term mission of the spacecraft with a degrading solar sail into the asteroid belt
Christian Bianchi, Lorenzo Niccolai, Giovanni Mengali, Matteo Ceriotti Blended Locally-Optimal Control Laws for Space Debris Removal in LEO Using a Solar Sail
Livio Carzana, W. Keats Wilkie, Andrew Heaton, Ben Diedrich, Jeannette Heiligers Solar-sail Steering Laws to Calibrate the Accelerations from Solar Radiation Pressure, Planetary Radiation Pressure, and Aerodynamic Drag
Benjamin M. Gauvain, Daniel A. Tyler A Solar Sail Shape Modeling Approach for Attitude Control Design and Analysis
Miroslav A. Rozhkov, Olga L. Starinova Cyclic Interplanetary Motion of a Cargo Solar Sail
Benjamin Diedrich Solar Sail Torque Model Characterization for the Near Earth Asteroid Scout Mission
Ryan J. Caverly, Keegan R. Bunkera, Nathan Raab, Vinh L. Nguyena, Garvin Sanera, Zixin Chen, Tyler Douvier, Richard J. Lyman, Owen Sorby, Benjamin Sorge, Ebise Teshale, Benjamin Torisev Solar Sail Attitude Control Using Shape Modulation: The Cable-Actuated Bio-inspired Lightweight Elastic Solar Sail Concept
Livio Carzana, Pieter Visser, Jeannette Heiligers A New Model for the Planetary Radiation Pressure Acceleration for Optical Solar Sails
Bruce A. Campbell Factoring Thrust Uncertainty into Solar Sail Performance Validation
Zitong Lin, Matteo Ceriotti, Colin R. McInnes Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Asteroid Hovering by Solar Sailing: Application to 433 Eros
Juan Garcia-Bonilla, Livio Carzana, Jeannette Heiligers Uncertainty quantification for solar sails in the near-Earth environment
Lorenzo Niccolai Optimal deep-space heliocentric transfers with an electric sail and an electric thruster