General equations of motion describing synchronous deployment of flexible, extendible booms from spinning spacecraft are developed, where direction of motion of representative boom relative to spacecraft is arbitrary; using simplifying assumption of rigid booms, equations of motion are solved for cases of unrestrained extension and constant-velocity extension; equations are applied to parametric studies of candidate deployment systems for sample problem, spacecraft antenna array; for selected development system, analog computer solutions to general flexible-boom equations are presented, serving to verify design arrived at by using rigid-boom assumption.


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    Title :

    Dynamics of development of extendible booms from spinning space vehicles


    Additional title:

    J Spacecraft Rockets


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    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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