An elastic roll out boom includes a thin wall, tubular, elongate structure having a plurality of interlocking elements disposed in spaced-apart relation along the surface thereof. The elastic roll out boom is configured to be flattened and rolled tightly to form a roll in a stowed configuration. The plurality of interlocking elements are positioned such that a first interlocking element engages a second interlocking element when the elastic roll out boom is in the stowed configuration. This prevents shear displacement between layers of the roll out boom.
Directionally controlled elastically deployable roll-out solar array
2017-04-04
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
Directionally controlled elastically deployable roll-out solar array
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