Dynamics and Control of a Flexible Solar Sail

Table 1

The related parameters.

Parameters	Values
CM/CP offset/m	[0, 0.17678, 0.17678
The side length of square sail/m	100
Nominal solar-radiation pressure constant at 1 AU from the sun/N/m^2	4.563 × 10^−6
Solar-radiation pressure force/N	9.12 × 10^−2
Roll inertia/kg*m^2	50383
Pitch and yaw inertia/kg*m^2	25191.5
Outer radius/m	0.229
Thickness of the supporting beam/m	7.5 × 10^−6
Young’s modulus of the supporting beam/GPa	12.4
Moment of inertia of the cross-section of the supporting beam/m^4	2.829412 × 10^−7
Bending stiffness of the supporting beam/N*m^2	3508.471336
Proportional damping coefficient of supporting beam/s	0.01
Line density of the supporting beam/kg/m	0.106879
Cross-sectional area of the supporting beam/m^2	1.079 × 10^−5
Roll disturbance torque/N*m	0
Pitch (yaw) disturbance torque/N*m	0.016122 (−0.016122)