In this paper, recent developments in the design, manufacturing, and testing of a novel deployable structure with several potential applications in space will be described. Through a cooperative effort of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a biologically inspired structurally integrated membrane featuring distributed functional elements has been developed and tested in a 2U CubeSat called BionicWingSat. Such a membrane structure could be useful for several applications in which a relatively flat area is desirable such as solar sails, drag sails, or solar shades. For SmallSats and CubeSats, the design proposed also has the desirable property of being self-deploying without the need for powered deployment mechanisms. Building on previous work inspired by the wings of earwigs, the research presented in this paper includes structural design of self-deploying hinges, a survey of various advanced additive layer manufacturing (ALM) methods for making hinges, mechanical characterization of the hinges, and finite element analysis (FEA) of the hinges. In this work, the conflicting goals of maximizing deployed structural stiffness, maximizing deployed area, maximizing stowed packaging efficiency, and maximizing resistance to creep when stowed must be considered. The resulting design concept is a gossamer structure that cannot support its own weight in gravity. For this reason, a focus in this paper is on a parabolic flight test campaign in which 24 fully integrated wings on two BionicWingSats were tested in a microgravity environment. From this test campaign, several lessons were learned regarding the wing design and procedures for carrying out microgravity tests of this manner.


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    Titel :

    Design and Testing of the BionicWingSat in a Zero-g Flight Campaign - A 2U-CubeSat with Deployable, Biologically-Inspired Wings


    Beteiligte:
    Martin E. Zander (Autor:in) / Matthew K. Chamberlain (Autor:in) / Domonic Jost (Autor:in) / Daniel Müller (Autor:in) / Niels Hagmeister (Autor:in) / Marco Straubel (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA Science and Technology (SciTech) Forum and Exposition 2023 ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD, US


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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