Today's KNOWLEDGE Share: High strain composites for the space industry!

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Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:

High strain composites for the space industry! 

Leveraging their extensive experience with spacecraft systems and components, Opterus Research and Development design and manufacture deployable booms, hinges, antennas, membrane structures, solar sails, light shades, and more! 





In this post you can see some examples of their recent developments: 


1) Trussed Collapsible Tubular Mast (T-CTM): Opterus’ most robust boom architecture, the patent pending TCTM features truss class structural performance. Offering the highest stiffness, strength, and precision this highly scalable boom architecture is ideal for large deployable space structures supporting high loads.


2)Collapsible Tubular Mast (CTM): Their most precise boom architecture, the patent pending CTM features a fully enclosed lenticular cross section. This architecture enables shorter boom transition lengths for greater compaction and greater strength and stiffness enabled by the closed cross section. Scalable to small and large cross section diameters, Opterus’ multi-step CTM manufacturing process is highly adaptable to a variety of boom scales with minimal lead time and cost.


3) Lenticular Offset Composite (LOC) Hinge: Derived from Opterus’ high strain composite slit-tube booms, the patent pending composite flexure hinge is a molded composite hinge that facilitates deployment via stored strain energy. The simple composite construction is low mass, cost effective and rapidly manufacturable.


Definitely one of the most distinct composite projects we have ever seen! Truly groundbreaking! Congratulations to the team! 


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