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Composite Materials and Deployable Boom Technology
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Space missions planned for Shuttle launches in the next decade require deployable booms that are stronger, stiffer, and longer than those that have been flown in the past. Recent develoments in deployable lattice boom technology include improved designs of the Astromast* using S-glass/epoxy rods as linear elements and a new folding boom called 5TACBEAM (Stacking Triangular Articulated Compact Beam) which employs graphite/epoxy rods or tubes. The design features of this new sequentially deployable truss result in improved performance and reliability compared with earlier booms.
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Knapp, K., "Composite Materials and Deployable Boom Technology," SAE Technical Paper 821395, 1982, https://doi.org/10.4271/821395.Also In
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- Woods, A.A. jr.; Garcia, N.F.: Offset Wrap Rib Antenna Concept Development Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Sunnyvale, CA 1982
- Adams, Louis R.: STACBEAM: An Efficient, Low-Mass, Sequentially Deployable Structure. Astro Research Corporation Presented at the 17th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference Los Angeles, CA 8–13 August 1982