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ST4 Solar Array
Program Details ISAE
  • Lightweight, low-volume flexible blanket array
  • Developed in support of New Millennium Program ST4 comet rendezvous mission
  • Inflatable Solar Array Experiment (ISAE) planned for technology demonstration on Shuttle
  • ILC Dover / AEC-ABLE / L’Garde / JPL / USAF Team
  • 5 kW flexible blanket array
  • Inflatable, rigidizable beam provides structure
  • Rigidization method is heated thermoset epoxy
  • Controlled deployment (wire brake roll-up)
  • Array size : 15m x 3m, split blanket configuration
  • 102W/Kg with 15% mass margin

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