A concept has been developed and analyzed and several generational prototypes built for a gossamer-class deployable truss for a mirror or reflector with many smaller precisely-figured solid elements attached will, for at least the next several decades, minimize the mass of a large primary mirror assembly while still providing the high image quality essential for planet-finding and cosmological astronomical missions. Primary mirror segments are mounted in turn on ultralightweight thermally-formed plastic panels that hold clusters of mirror segments in rigid arrays whose tip/tilt and piston would be corrected over the scale of the plastic panels by the control segments. Prototype panels developed under this program are 45 cm wide and fabricated from commercially available Kaplan sheets. A three-strut octahedral tensegrity is the basis for the overall support structure. Each fundamental is composed of two such octahedrons, rotated oppositely about a common triangular face. Adjacent modules are joined at the nodes of the upper and lower triangles to form a deployable structure that could be made arbitrarily large. A seven-module dowel-and-wire prototype has been constructed. Deployment techniques based on the use of collapsing toggled struts with diagonal tensional elements allows an assembly of tensegrities to be fully collapsed and redeployed. The prototype designs will be described and results of a test program for measuring strength and deformation will be presented.


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    Title :

    Ultralightweight Space Deployable Primary Reflector Demonstrator


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    4th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Forum ; 2002 ; Denver, CO, United States
    10th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference ; 2002 ; Denver, CO, United States
    3rd AIAA Gossamer Spacecraft Forum ; 2002 ; Denver, CO, United States
    43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference ; 2002 ; Denver, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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