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Gaspacs Structure: Designing To Survive, John Ellis
Gaspacs Structure: Designing To Survive, John Ellis
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The USU Get Away Special (GAS) Team is creating a self-‐stabilizing CubeSat through the utilization of a deploying boom and panel combination. Commercially available CubeSat frame cannot accommodate any deployable panels and have no space to fit a packed boom. Therefore a custom frame needed to be designed from the ground up to meet the mission needs while still conforming to the designated specifications produced by Cal Poly. The frame needs to be a 10 cm cube, hold together during liftoff, and not melt the avionics boards within the satellite. Several models were designed and tested through the use of …