  Recent successes in the deployment of sails in space have reduced the risk
associated with solar sailing missions. The attitude control requirements for a
solar sailing mission is low with only slow attitude maneuvers needed to
maintain a stable attitude and produce a required solar thrust. Future science
missions will require large attitude maneuvers with a fully deployed sail. This
article investigates the current options for attitude control on solar sails
and proposes a gyro-controlled solar sailing. This concept uses a spinning
solar sail to construct a control moment gyroscope capable to produce large
torques. Steering laws for performing attitude maneuvers and simulation results
are presented which demonstrates the capabilities of such a solution.
