Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a NASA deep space Cubesat, scheduled to launch on the Exploration Mission 1 flight of the Space Launch System. NEA Scout will use a deployable solar sail as its primary propulsion system. The sail is a square membrane supported by rigid metallic tapespring booms, and analysis predicts that these booms will experience substantial thermal warping if they are exposed to direct sunlight in the space environment. NASA has conducted sunspot chamber experiments to confirm the thermal distortion of this class of booms, demonstrating tip displacement of between 20 and 50 centimeters in a 4-meter boom. The distortion behavior of the boom is complex and demonstrates an application for advanced thermal-structural analysis. The needs of the NEA Scout project were supported by changing the solar sail design to keep the booms shaded during use of the solar sail, and an additional experiment in the sunspot chamber is presented in support of this solution.


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    Title :

    Temperature-Driven Shape Changes of the Near Earth Asteroid Scout Solar Sail


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Symposium on Solar Sailing ; 2017 ; Kyoto, Japan


    Publication date :

    2017-01-17


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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