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Bistable Over the Whole Length (BOWL) CFRP Booms for Solar Sails

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This paper presents novel ultra-light booms for solar sails and other large deployable space structures. These CFRP booms have a unique property: bistability over the whole length (BOWL), which enables simple and compact deployment mechanism designs that can reduce overall system mass. They were produced to solve some of the previously encountered problems with bistable composite tubular booms that reduced their optimal length and scalability due to local buckling phenomena when the diameter of the coil increased. A new low-cost manufacturing technique, which consists of using braids with a variable angle change over the boom length, was found to have a positive effect in reducing that tendency. An analytical model is used to explain this behavior and predict the secondary stable state properties and natural diameter of the coiled/packed boom. A 3.6 m tape spring version of these bistable CFRP booms has been designed for a 25 m2 Gossamer Sail Deorbiter of future space assets and is being considered for an upcoming solar sail demonstration mission called CubeSail. Larger booms are being designed for a new scalable roll-up solar array concept.

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Financial support from EADS Astrium as part of the CubeSail mission and the UK Technology Strategy Board through the “Feasibility Studies for Innovations in Space” program are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

    Juan M. Fernandez, Andrew Viquerat & Vaios J. Lappas

  2. RolaTube Technology Ltd., 130 Wellworthy Road, Ampress Park, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 8JY, UK

    Andrew J. Daton-Lovett

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Fernandez, J.M., Viquerat, A., Lappas, V.J., Daton-Lovett, A.J. (2014). Bistable Over the Whole Length (BOWL) CFRP Booms for Solar Sails. In: Macdonald, M. (eds) Advances in Solar Sailing. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_38

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