Solar Thruster Sailor (STS) - Fig. 10 - Thruster Ring Spacecraft using a chemical booster to overcome the slow first acceleration stages.

- Đ Frank Ellinghaus -

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POST & AUTHOR & Vision
STS - Solar Thruster Sailor
RSS - Ring Skeleton Structure LTH - Launcher Transport Head EFO - Experimental Flying Object RSC - Rotational Slingshot Catapult
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Fig.1 - Fig.2a-2b - Fig.2c - Fig.2d - Fig.3a-3b - Fig.4a-4c - Fig.5 - Fig.6 - Fig.7 - Inner Ring - Flying Ring - Fig.8 - Fig.8a - Fig.8b - Fig.9 - Fig.9a - Fig.10 - Fig.11 - Fig.10 - Fig.11 - Fig.13 - Fig.14-15 - Fig.16 Mobile Thruster Unit - Fig.17 - Fig.18 Fuelless Steering - Fig.19-21d Solar Sail Launch System


Fig. 10 - Thruster Ring Spacecraft latched to a chemical booster rocket - to boost the initial thrust to chemical levels.

Solar Sails and Solar Electric Propulsion are very effective in fuel consumption. Both are weak propulsion methods. A lot of time is needed for acceleration. This is especially true for the acceleration needed to get out of Earthīs gravitation well. A solar sail as well as a ion or Hall thruster driven space craft needs a lot of time to spiral out of Earth orbit. Smart I for instance, the European ion-thruster driven probe needed more than a year to reach Moon orbit from Earth orbit. A chemical rocket could do that in in a straight way not having to spiral around Earth.

Why not combine the advantages of those propulsion methods?
Figure 10 shows a Thruster Ring Spacecraft latched to a chemical booster rocket with CNT fiber threads or belts. This not used booster brought with a rocket into space could get latched there to the center of the Thruster Ring Spacecraft - even when fitted with a solar sail.

Solar Sail or Thruster Ring Spacecraft latched to a booster rocket for a fast orbit change.
The booster is latched to the spacecraft Outer Ring and to itīs Inner Ring also. When the boosterīs fuel is used up the solar sail accelerates further with itīs electric thrusters abondaning the booster.

The long spiraling method could get prevented, the mission considerably shortened and the craft already on a high speed level will accelerate further for a long time.

Another use for such a coupling method would be to transport a booster through the Thruster Ring Spacecraft or for pointing it into the needed direction, letting it going off alone.

to the next MOPS - The MObile Solar Power Station - a space power utility moving like a spacecraft

Fig.1 - Fig.2a-2b - Fig.2c - Fig.2d - Fig.3a-3b - Fig.4a-4c - Fig.5 - Fig.6 - Fig.7 - Inner Ring - Flying Ring - Fig.8 - Fig.8a - Fig.8b - Fig.9 - Fig.9a - Fig.10 - Fig.11

I N D E X - G E R M A N

POST & AUTHOR & Vision
STS - Solar Thruster Sailor
RSS - Ring Skeleton Structure LTH - Launcher Transport Head EFO - Experimental Flying Object RSC - Rotational Slingshot Catapult
L I N K S ENGLISH