2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion

Conference Report on the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion

Mechanisms to deploy the two-stage IUS from the shuttle cargo bay

The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) is a two-stage or three-stage booster used to transport spacecraft from the space shuttle orbit to synchronous orbit or on an interplanetary trajectory. The mechanisms which were designed specifically to perform the two-stage IUS required functions while contained within the cargo bay of the space shuttle during the boost phase and while in a low Earth orbit are discussed. The requirements, configuration, and operation of the mechanisms are described, with particular emphasis on the tilt actuator and the mechanism for decoupling the actuators during boost to eliminate redundant load paths

Mechanisms for restraining and deploying a 50-kW solar array

Design and hardware of restraining and deploying mechanism for solar array of Mars flyby missio