The development and ground testing of a scalable solar sail configuration to address NASA's future space propulsion needs were discussed. The baseline design in development and testing was optimized around the 1 Au solar sentinel mission. The use of striped sail architecture, net/membrane sail design and L'Garde's conical boom depolyment technique allows scalability without high mass penalties. The fabricated masses and structural test results of our beam components have met predictions and no changes to the mass estimates have been identified, which added great credibility to the design.
Development and ground testing of a compactly stowed scalable inflatably deployed solar sail
2004
16 Seiten, 9 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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