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Gossamer Apparatus and Systems for use with Spacecraft

Increases surface area of a spacecraft via solar sail, in order to decelerate, modify orbit or de-orbit, for aerobraking, and/or to lower the apogee of the orbit of the spacecraft

Features and Benefits:

  • Unprecedented CubeSat power levels
  • Passive strain-energy deployment
  • Low-Cost with thin-film commercial solar cells ($/W)
  • Gravity-gradient attitude stabilization option
  • Long array enables generation of gravity gradient torque in LEO
Patents and Publications

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