Published: July 14th 2021 – Last revision: January 31st 2022

Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP) is the force produced by the impact of sunlight photons on the surface of the spacecraft. This extra force, despite being small, plays an important role in trajectory design and orbit determination.

In this paper, we present an open-source tool that enables the user to compute high-fidelity approximations of SRP accelerations for a given spacecraft using ray-tracing techniques. The tool also allows the user to compare between different fidelity levels and different models like the N-plate or the cannonball, finding a trade-off on the SRP accuracy between computation time and accuracy.

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Universitat de Barcelona

Anna
Puig Puig
Leandro Zardaín

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Ariadna Farrés



Related Publications

L. Zardain; A. Farrés; A. Puig (2020). High-fidelity Modeling and Visualizing of Solar Radiation Pressure: A Framework for High-fidelity Analysis. (Ponència) . 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference . 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Virtual Conference, Lake Tahoe, August 2020 . Lake Tahoe . ESTATS UNITS D’AMÈRICA 




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