PDF In-Space Structural Validation Plan for a Stretched-Lens Solar Array Flight Experiment Download
- Author: Richard S. Pappa
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- Category : Expandable space structures
- Languages : en
- Pages : 18
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A Concept Definition Study (CDS) was conducted to develop a proposed "Lightweight High-Voltage Stretched-Lens Concentrator Solar Array Experiment" under NASA's New Millennium Program Space Technology-6 (NMPST-6) activity. As part of a multi-organizational team, NASA Langley Research Center's role in this propose experiment was to lead Structural Characterization of the solar array during the flight experiment. In support of this role, NASA LaRC participated in the CDS to define an experiment for static, dynamic, and deployment characterization of the array. In this study, NASA LaRC traded state-of-the-art measurement approaches appropriate fix an in-space, STS-based flight experiment, provided initial analysis and testing of the lightweight solar array and lens elements, performed a lighting and photogrammetric simulation in conjunction with JSC, and produced an experiment concept definition to meet structural characterization requirements.
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