Journal
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 11, Pages 1747-1753Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.01.014
Keywords
Solar; Sail; Mast; Boom; Deployable; Structure
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new deployable mast design that may provide a means to scale up solar sails to very large dimensions. The paper describes the basic analytical approach for truss beams, compares this new design with the state-of-art truss used in NASA's solar sail development work, and provides analyses of novel applications enabled by the mast design. (C) 2011 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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