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| The deployment spacecraft should be largely built with conventional satellite technology.
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| Work needed on the cimber:
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| |Overall system engineering || Overall satellite constraints and components need to be defined along with the trade-offs for overall performance and subcomponents
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| |Categorize available electromagnetic propulsion systems of the size required || Define, performance, mass, maturity, cost,
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| |Examine large scale ribbon spooling techniques ||
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| |Ribbon deployment || dynamics, speed, matching tension in multiple ribons, attaching ribbons end-to-end.
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| |Overall structure design || Minimize mass, design to handle oscillations, operation in unidirectional gravity field (0 - 0.1G)
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| |Retrieving the end of the ribbon at Earth || General scenario, issues, end unit design, performance requirements
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| |Operations || Work out a detailed operational scenario including fault handling, despooling and speed control
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Latest revision as of 07:44, 7 July 2008
