Deployable composite structures are innovative engineering solutions designed to fold and unfold efficiently, making them ideal for applications in space exploration, satellite technology ...

Description: BOOM will design a deployable boom and sensor payload that can mount to a CubeSat and enable low-noise magnetosphere data collection. Deployable booms have been used on space stations and ...

Boom-X will use a 1-meter deployable boom to ensure the instrument operates in a low-noise environment, and will develop software for boom deployment control, magnetometer data acquisition, attitude ...

self-deployable boom that weighs only about 20 grams. The study, "Multifunctional bistable ultrathin composite booms with flexible electronics," by Yao Yao and Xin Ning from Illinois, Juan ...

To address these characteristics in a new way, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign successfully integrated flexible electronics with a three-ply, self-deployable boom that ...