Deployment and retraction of a cable-driven rigid panel solar array

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 836-842

  Kumar, P ^a,b   Pellegrino, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TORQUE;

CABLE DRIVEN RIGID PANEL SOLAR ARRAY; DEPLOYMENT RETRACTION PROCESS; GRAVITY COMPENSATION SYSTEM;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 0030285389     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26846     Document Type: Article

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