Thrust calculation of electric solar wind sail by particle-in-cell simulation

Hoshi, Kento; Kojima, Hirotsugu; Muranaka, Takanobu; Yamakawa, Hiroshi

doi:10.5194/angeo-34-845-2016

Articles | Volume 34, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-845-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-845-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 34, issue 9

Regular paper

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26 Sep 2016

Regular paper |

| 26 Sep 2016

Thrust calculation of electric solar wind sail by particle-in-cell simulation

Kento Hoshi, Hirotsugu Kojima, Takanobu Muranaka, and Hiroshi Yamakawa

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Short summary

We have investigated thrust characteristics of an electric solar wind sail (E-sail), which is a newly proposed propulsion system, by using numerical simulations. The thrust obtained from our simulation was lower than the thrust esimated by past studies. We have also developed a method to estimate the thrust of the E-sail without time-consuming particle simulations.