Passive deployment of an EMC boom using radiant energy in thermal vacuum

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 6875-6880

  Taylor, Robert M ^a,b,c   Abrahamson, Erik ^a,b,c   Barrett, Rory ^a,b,c   Codell, Dana E ^a,b,c   Keller, Philip N ^a  

^a Composite Technology Development Inc ^*  (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED LAMPS; LIQUID NITROGEN; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RADIANT HEATING; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACECRAFT; VACUUM;

ELASTIC MEMORY COMPOSITE (EMC); PASSIVE DEPLOYMENT; SOLAR ARRAY SYSTEM; THERMAL VACUUM;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 34547499516     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-2269     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. U. S. Patent Pending.
2. Anonymous, "Tubular Spacecraft Booms (Extendible, Reel-Stored)," NASA SP-8065, February 1971.