TABLE OF CONTENTS Gregory P. Garbe [*]
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Bong Wie [ ]
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Dave Murphy [ ]
ATK ABLE Engineering, ATK Space Systems, Goleta, California
Anthony Ewing [ ]
Ewing Research, Nashville, Tennessee
Leo Lichodziejewski [**] and Billy Derbes [ ]
L Garde Inc., Tustin, California
Bruce Campbell [ ]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
John Wang [ ] and Barmac Taleghani [ ]
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
and
Stephen L. Canfield [] , James W. Beard III [ ]
and John Peddieson []
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee
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[*]Lead Systems Engineer, In-Space Propulsion Technologies Project Office.
[ ]Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
[ ]Chief Research Engineer.
[ ]Engineering Consultant.
[**]Program Manager.
[ ]Program Engineer.
[ ]Chief Systems Engineer.
[ ]Aerospace Engineer.
[ ]Senior Mechanical Engineer.
[]Professor, Mechanical Engineering.
[ ]Research Associate.
A = total sail surface area, m 2
a SC = acceleration of spacecraft, m/s 2
c = speed of light, m/s 2
E = model Young s modulus (force/area), N/m 2
F = model sail stress function (force)
F ? = prototype sail stress function (force) (prime indicates prototype)
F
