General equations of motion describing synchronous deployment of flexible, extendible booms from spinning spacecraft are developed, where direction of motion of representative boom relative to spacecraft is arbitrary; using simplifying assumption of rigid booms, equations of motion are solved for cases of unrestrained extension and constant-velocity extension; equations are applied to parametric studies of candidate deployment systems for sample problem, spacecraft antenna array; for selected development system, analog computer solutions to general flexible-boom equations are presented, serving to verify design arrived at by using rigid-boom assumption.
Dynamics of development of extendible booms from spinning space vehicles
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 5 , n 5
1968
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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