Inflatable solar arrays: Revolutionary technology?

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Grahne, Mark S ^a   Cadogan, David P ^a  

^a ILC DOVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; INFLATABLE STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; INFLATABLE SOLAR ARRAYS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY; SPACE INFLATABLE STRUCTURE; SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 85072459960     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/1999-01-2551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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