Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new deployable mast design that may provide a means to scale up solar sails to very large dimensions. The paper describes the basic analytical approach for truss beams, compares this new design with the state-of-art truss used in NASA’s solar sail development work, and provides analyses of novel applications enabled by the mast design.
A deployable mast for solar sails in the range of 100–1000m
Advances in Space Research ; 48 , 11 ; 1747-1753
2011-01-14
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
A deployable mast for solar sails in the range of 100–1000m
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