The development and ground testing of a scalable solar sail configuration to address NASA's future space propulsion needs were discussed. The baseline design in development and testing was optimized around the 1 Au solar sentinel mission. The use of striped sail architecture, net/membrane sail design and L'Garde's conical boom depolyment technique allows scalability without high mass penalties. The fabricated masses and structural test results of our beam components have met predictions and no changes to the mass estimates have been identified, which added great credibility to the design.


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    Title :

    Development and ground testing of a compactly stowed scalable inflatably deployed solar sail


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    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    16 Seiten, 9 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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