Solar sail membranes must have a high area-to-mass ratio and high solid volume fraction when stowed. In order to meet mission requirements, current solar sail projects, such as NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Scout, require metallized sail membranes with thicknesses on the order of 2-3 μm. These very thin membranes do not retain creases like thicker membranes, solar panels, or paper models. For Cubesat-class spacecraft, volume, rather than mass, is often the driving requirement for deployable structural elements. These two factors make it both difficult and highly desirable to characterize the practical differences between solar sail membrane packaging methods with laboratory demonstrations. This paper presents lessons gathered from lab work with solar sail membranes at a 10-meter scale.


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    Titel :

    Advances in Low-Cost Manufacturing and Folding of Solar Sail Membranes


    Beteiligte:
    Stohlman, Olive R. (Autor:in) / Fernandez, Juan M. (Autor:in) / Dean, Gregory D. (Autor:in) / Schneider, Nigel (Autor:in) / Kang, Jin Ho (Autor:in) / Barfield, Randall (Autor:in) / Herndon, Taylor (Autor:in) / Stokes, Peter (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    2019 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-01-07


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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