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Deployment And Characterisation Of A Telescopic Boom For Sounding Rockets, Johnalan Keegan, Mark Wylie, Stephen Curran, Dinesh Vather, Paul Duffy
Deployment And Characterisation Of A Telescopic Boom For Sounding Rockets, Johnalan Keegan, Mark Wylie, Stephen Curran, Dinesh Vather, Paul Duffy
Conference Papers
In any sounding rocket, volume and mass are at a premium. Payload designers strive towards smaller, lighter and cheaper mechanisms which can achieve the same goals. This project aims to reduce the mass and volume for probe deployment booms and their deployment mechanisms. An experiment (Telescobe) to test a low cost novel method of boom deployment using telescopic carbon fibre poles was developed. A custom camera measurement system was also developed to measure boom length and harmonic deflection. This experiment was flown onboard the REXUS 9 sounding rocket [1] in February 2011 from Esrange space centre, Sweden. The experiment functioned …