Sentence examples for sailing formation from inspiring English sources

With the French still appearing reluctant to attack on the morning of 16 February, Dance ordered his ships to increase their speed by breaking into a sailing formation.

At 09 00, Dance reformed his force into sailing formation to put distance between the two forces and Linois took the opportunity to attack, threatening to cut off the rearmost British ships.

Dance responded to the reprieve by reforming the line of battle into sailing formation to increase his convoy's speed with the intention of reaching the Straits ahead of Linois.

A fixed-attitude solar sail formation is motivated by the difficulties in the simultaneous control of orbit and attitude in flying solar sails.

These averaged rates are used to analytically derive the first-order necessary conditions for a drift-free solar sail formation in Sun-synchronous orbits, assuming a fixed Sun-pointing orientation for each sail in formation.

The objective for this study is to investigate the feasibility of solar sail formation flying in the Earth-centered, Sun-synchronous orbit regime.

Solar sail formation flying in the reference orbit is shown to be controllable by making small variations in the reflectivity modulation ratio and two attitude angles.

We analyze a cooperative control framework for electric sail formation flying around a heliocentric displaced orbit, aiming at observing the polar region of a celestial body.

In this paper, solar sail formation flying in Earth-centered slightly inclined orbits is investigated, with each solar sail employing a simple sun-pointing steering law that precesses the orbit apse-line sun-synchronously.

The relative motion of the electric sail formation system is formulated in the chief rotating frame, where the control inputs of each deputy are the relative sail attitude angles and the relative lightness number with respect to those of the chief.

Next, nonlinear programming is applied to design truly drift-free two-craft solar sail formations.