In 2005, NASA commenced Phase 1 of the Modular Reconfigurable High Energy Technology Demonstrator (MRHE) program to investigate reconfigurable systems of small spacecraft. During that year, Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) led an accelerated effort to develop a 1-g MRHE concept demonstration featuring robotic spacecraft simulators equipped with docking mechanisms and deployable booms. The deployable boom built for MRHE was the result of a joint effort in which ATK was primarily responsible for developing and fabricating the Collapsible Rollable Tube (CRT patent pending) boom while Lockheed Martin designed and built the motorized Boom Deployment Mechanism (BDM) under a concurrent but separate IR&D program. Tight coordination was necessary to meet testbed integration and functionality requirements. This paper provides an overview of the CRT boom and BDM designs and presents preliminary results of integration and testing to support the MRHE demonstration.


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    Titel :

    Development of a Deployable Nonmetallic Boom for Reconfigurable Systems of Small Spacecraft


    Beteiligte:
    Rehnmark, Fredrik (Autor:in) / Pryor, Mark (Autor:in) / Holmes, Buck (Autor:in) / Schaechter, David (Autor:in) / Pedreiro, Nelson (Autor:in) / Carrington, Connie (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    48th AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference ; 2007 ; Waikiki, HI, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    23.04.2007


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch