Deployable structures and mechanisms are essential components in the design of spacecraft and satellite systems. These structures allow for efficient use of space during launch and can be expanded ...

Deployable composite structures are innovative engineering solutions designed to fold and unfold efficiently, making them ideal for applications in space exploration, satellite technology ...

Researchers have created a 20-gram, self-deployable boom integrated with flexible electronics for use in CubeSats. The boom, ...

Description: In the study of deployable space structures, it is vital to experimentally characterize all aspects of the deployment dynamics in order to reduce risk when unfolding on-orbit. There is a ...

(Nanowerk News) Being lightweight is essential for space structures, particularly for tools used on already small ... researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign successfully integrated ...

SMARTCubeS introduces unparalleled flexibility to deployable space-structures via dynamically reconfigurable swarms of connected, modular CubeSats. Launching these swarms as compact arrays, SMARTCubeS ...

Being lightweight is essential for space structures, particularly for tools ... integrated flexible electronics with a three-ply, self-deployable boom that weighs only about 20 grams.

A BYU-made, origami-inspired deployable antenna in storage mode ... The main challenge has been in designing a structure that unfolds to a permanently flat antenna. Regular hinges do not work in the ...

AFRL researchers are developing origami antennas deployable in space. The goal of the new Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable Multifunctional Antennas located at Florida ...

This might boost our level of technology in constructing anything from reconfigurable micro devices to deployable space structures. Produced by Gene Kim Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech ...

and affordable space mission capabilities. Redwire will research and develop novel and emerging spacecraft technologies to include large deployable structures, thermal management capabilities ...