In the past decade CubeSats have made their way into the spotlight. They have evolved from small, university educational opportunities, to industry and governments using them make new discoveries and monetize space. However, with the small, constrained CubeSat form factor; there is often a need to expand the CubeSat through deployable mechanisms once the satellite is in space. This paper is a survey of deployable structures and their actuating mechanisms for CubeSats. The goal of this paper is to provide the applications within which deployable structures have been used in the past for CubeSats, the mechanisms with regards to how they deploy, the lessons learned, and limitations of the various types of deployables. The inputs to this paper come from a relational database in development to track launched CubeSat missions with deployable structures. From this database we can find insightful trends. This paper specifically focuses on the first decade of CubeSat deployables, from 2000 to 2010.


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    Title :

    A Survey of CubeSat Deployable Structures: The First Decade


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    Publication date :

    2021-01-11


    Type of media :

    Preprint


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    Language :

    English



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