The successful development of sail architectures will require careful attention to a number of key issues including but not limited to material strength issues, stress conditions for the membrane, load interactions between membrane and structure, and membrane material planarity. Along with the inherent challenges of fabricating and handling very large membrane structures these issues will pose real challenges for the near-term development of practical sail technologies. SRS has developed innovative technologies that deal directly with the challenges of developing very large sail membranes. Some of these technologies include edge reinforcements and innovative reinforcement attachment techniques, production of flight durable sail materials of less than 2.5 micron thicknesses and large scale fabrication techniques. SRS has employed these technologies in several large 10m demonstrators that have been delivered to LaRC for solar vacuum testing. Details of the design of this system will be discussed.


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    Title :

    Innovative structural design features for a 10m solar sail demonstrator


    Contributors:
    Laue, G. (author) / Moore, J. (author) / Clayton, W. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    3 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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