At NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, researchers and engineers are planning a mission to demonstrate the next generation of solar sail technology for small interplanetary spacecraft. As part of this development effort, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will demonstrate deployment of an approximately 800 square foot (74 square meter) composite boom solar sail system in low-Earth orbit. This will be the first use of composite booms as well as sail packing and deployment systems for a solar sail in orbit. Also developed for ACS3 is an innovative tape-spool boom extraction system to minimize blossoming, or jamming, of the coiled booms during deployment.


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    Title :

    Advanced Composite Solar Sail System Animation



    Conference:

    International Symposium on Solar Sailing ; 2019 ; Aachen, Germany


    Publication date :

    2019-07-30


    Type of media :

    Audio-visual


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English