Engineered spacecraft deployables influenced by nature

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7424, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pohl, David ^a   Wolpert, W D ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Bio Optics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Deployables; Mechanical; Nature; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERS; DEPLOYABLE SYSTEMS; DEPLOYABLES; DRIVING MECHANISM; END-PRODUCTS; ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES; LATCH MECHANISMS; MECHANICAL; NATURAL ANALOG; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NATURE; NORTHROP GRUMMAN; RELEASE MECHANISM; SOLAR ARRAYS; SPACE INDUSTRY; SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS; SUB-SYSTEMS; SUN-SHIELD;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; TENNIS COURTS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 70449490870     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.823960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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