File:PosterSSS.pdf

Copyright &copy; 2007 Frank Ellinghaus. Published with the permission of the author.

Print ready poster on SEP-Solar-Sail mothership-spacecraft with "Roller- Reefing-System" for fuelless propulsion, steering and attitude control, proposed format 80 x 120 cm, layout-program used = Scribus.

Two different solar-sail designs are shown.

a) the RingCraft design thought for huge (square-km-sized) space constructed solar sails with stiff Outer Ring, solar sail propulsion with roller-reefing steering and attitude control, additionally SEP-thruster-modules fixed to the Ring and a large payload and docking station in the spacecraft's center.

b) the Solar-Sail-Launch-System with a launcher, whereby the System-Sail can be operation ready launched from Earth and features roller-reefing, additional SEP-propulsion and solar cell arrays, a docking- and payload station for several daughter units which are already docked at launch.