Method and equipment for deploying an envelope around an object,

Details Method and equipment for deploying an envelope around an object, Method and equipment for deploying an envelope around an object,

1987-04-07

1988-09-13

Barefoot, Galen

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

Spacecraft formation, orbit, or interplanetary path

B64G 110

Patent

active

047703741

ABSTRACT:
A method for deploying an airtight envelope (8) around an object (1) comprising providing a cylindrical, elongated envelope with two mutually opposite poles (3, 9) at each of its ends, inverting this envelope on itself and longitudinally pleating it accordion-wise when in this inverted position, the pole (9) of this envelope (8) being in the inverted part and being solidly joined to the object (1), the opposite pole (3) being connected to the object (1) by a link mast (2) comprising a cylindrical balloon initially in the deflated state, the deployment of the envelope (8) comprising inflating the link mast until it is full, then inflating the envelope (8) until it is full and at which time it will be deployed around the object (1).

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