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Recent Developments In Smart Adaptive Structures For Solar Sailcraft, Mark Whorton, Young Kim, Jerry Oakley, Olawale Adetona, Lee Keel
Recent Developments In Smart Adaptive Structures For Solar Sailcraft, Mark Whorton, Young Kim, Jerry Oakley, Olawale Adetona, Lee Keel
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The "Smart Adaptive Structures for Solar Sailcraft" development activity at MSFC has investigated issues associated with understanding how to model and scale the subsystem and multi-body system dynamics of a gossamer solar sailcraft with the objective of designing sailcraft attitude control systems. This research and development activity addressed three key tasks that leveraged existing facilities and core competencies of MSFC to investigate dynamics and control issues of solar sails. Key aspects of this effort included modeling and testing of a 30 m deployable boom; modeling of the multi-body system dynamics of a gossamer sailcraft; investigation of control-structures interaction for gossamer …