Design, fabrication, testing of smart materials actuated deployable space antenna

• Main Author: Pan, Zhankun
• Other Authors: Liu Yong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Functional and smart materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16994
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With vast changes in spacecraft developments over its short history, a new and cheaper method was needed for deployment kinematics systems such as parabolic antenna reflectors. Historically, meshed surface reflectors that resembled folded umbrellas had been used. But with the rapid commercialization...