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Improvement of Stiffness Properties of Spacecraft Solar Panels

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This paper considers changes in design of solar panels due to a need to improve reliability and to increase the service life.

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  1. Romashin ONPP Tekhnologiya, Kievskoe sh. 15, Obninsk, Kaluzhskaya oblast, 249031, Russia

    Ya. A. Khmel’nitskii

  2. Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University, ul. Karla Marksa 10, Kazan, 420111, Russia

    M. S. Salina

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Original Russian Text © Ya.A. Khmel’nitskii, M.S. Salina, 2018, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Aviatsionnaya Tekhnika, 2018, No. 2, pp. 146–148.

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Khmel’nitskii, Y.A., Salina, M.S. Improvement of Stiffness Properties of Spacecraft Solar Panels. Russ. Aeronaut. 61, 304–306 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068799818020228

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