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DOI: 10.2514/6.2019-1018
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Review of Habitable Softgoods Inflatable Design, Analysis, Testing, and Potential Space Applications

Abstract: Inflatable space structures have the potential to significantly reduce the required launch volume of large crewed pressure vessels for space exploration missions. Mass savings can also be achieved via the use of high specific strength softgoods materials, and the reduced design penalty from launching the structure in a densely packaged state. Inflatable softgoods structures have been investigated since the late 1950's, and several major development programs at NASA and in industry have helped advance the state… Show more

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“…An image progression of its inflation process is shown in Figure 10. The demonstration has performed as expected and proves that inflatable habitats are feasible and applicable for future use 11 .…”
Section: Beamsupporting
confidence: 60%
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“…An image progression of its inflation process is shown in Figure 10. The demonstration has performed as expected and proves that inflatable habitats are feasible and applicable for future use 11 .…”
Section: Beamsupporting
confidence: 60%
“…During the Constellation program, starting in 2005, NASA developed concepts for lunar surface exploration using inflatables. Figure 11 shows some of these concepts including a concentric torus habitat, an expanding cylindrical tunnel, and a softgoods airlock 11 . While these are just a few of the potential applications, there are many more options yet to be envisioned.…”
Section: Surface Explorationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…-inflatable space reflectors (Echo satellites) [15]; -inflatable antennas (SPARTAN experiment) [15]; -systems for storing and returning payload to Earth [15]; -inflatable modules for placing astronauts (BEAM) [16]; -inflatable rods for space systems distributed in space [17]; -systems for the removal of spent spacecraft from near-Earth orbits [18].…”
Section: Literature Review and Problem Statementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to the exceptional creep resistance of polyarylate fibers, braided polyarylate fiber ropes are particularly favored by spacecraft deployable structures with long-term static load, such as thermal knife hold-down and release device, space tether, mesh expandable antenna, and space habitat. [1][2][3][4] However, the tensile properties of braided polyarylate fiber ropes depend on the loading history that leads to the difficulty of predicting the mechanical behavior of the rope and essentially affects the design of the ropes for the spacecraft deployable structures.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%