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The aim of the GOSSAMER-1 mission is an in-orbit deployment of versatile ultra-lightweight deployable sail hardware as a feasibility demonstration. The presented work focuses on the design and manufacturing of the sail membrane for GOSSAMER-1. The work has reached a preliminary design status which shall be presented in this paper. It includes mechanical analysis as well as a description of manufacturing strategies at the department of System Conditioning at the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen.
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Seefeldt, P., Spietz, P., Spröwitz, T. (2014). The Preliminary Design of the GOSSAMER-1 Solar Sail Membrane and Manufacturing Strategies. In: Macdonald, M. (eds) Advances in Solar Sailing. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_10
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