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Space station freedom solar array containment box mechanisms
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Johnson, Mark E. Haugen, Bert Anderson, Grant |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | Space Station Freedom will feature six large solar arrays, called solar array wings, built by Lockheed Missiles & Space Company under contract to Rockwell International, Rocketdyne Division. Solar cells are mounted on flexible substrate panels which are hinged together to form a 'blanket.' Each wing is comprised of two blankets supported by a central mast, producing approximately 32 kW of power at beginning-of-life. During launch, the blankets are fan-folded and compressed to 1.5 percent of their deployed length into containment boxes. This paper describes the main containment box mechanisms designed to protect, deploy, and retract the solar array blankets: the latch, blanket restraint, tension, and guidewire mechanisms. |
| File Size | 1057226 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940028786 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t74v1j33c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Energy Production And Conversion Solar Cells Retractable Equipment Panels Solar Blankets Latches Constraints Space Station Freedom Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
