Structural engineering on deployable CFRP booms for a solar propelled sailcraft

54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1799-1809

  Sickinger, C ^a   Herbeck, L ^a   Breitbach, E ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; ORBITS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROPULSION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT; STRESS ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SAIL SEGMENTS; SOLAR SAILS; SPACE STRUCTURES; ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT CONSTRUCTION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 22344457657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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