Deployable folded multi-element satellite subsystems

Details Deployable folded multi-element satellite subsystems Deployable folded multi-element satellite subsystems

1982-12-07

1985-12-31

Barefoot, Galen L.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

With payload accommodation

188274, 188306, B64G 144, B64G 122

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045616140

ABSTRACT:
A solar panel satellite subsystem includes a first and second set of solar panels and booms joined together end to end in series and to opposite sides of the spacecraft by spring bias hinges. These hinges include viscous fluid dampers. Each damper has its own heater and thermostat coupled thereto to maintain essentially the same damper temperature as the ground test temperature at each hinge and maintain essentially the same desired rate of deployment at each hinge.

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patent: 3672475 (1972-06-01), Nash
patent: 4155524 (1979-05-01), Marello et al.
patent: 4290168 (1981-09-01), Binge
Hasbach, "Lightweight Solar Panel Development" NASA TR 32-1519, Mar. 15, 1971.

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