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Jingxue Wang, Min Liu, Qingshan Yang, Yi Hui and Shidong Nie
The assessment of extreme wind loading on solar arrays plays a significant role in ensuring their safe operation under strong winds. Therefore, this paper investigates the extreme wind loading on solar arrays mounted on a flat roof by taking into account...
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Jiwei Tang, Weicheng Xie, Pingfang Zhou, Hui Yang, Tongxin Zhang and Quanbao Wang
Stratospheric airships have much potential in military and commercial applications. Design, analysis and optimization of stratospheric airships involves complex trade-off of different disciplines, and hence a multidisciplinary approach is essential. This...
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Ji Liang, Hongguang Jia, Mao-Sheng Chen, Ling-Bo Kong, Huiying Hu and Lihong Guo
In this study, a dynamic model of a solar array drive system that includes a pair of flexible solar arrays with a central rigid shaft and a permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) was developed, and a disturbance compensation sliding mode control (DCSM...
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Francesco Lopez, Anna Mauro, Stefano Mauro, Giuseppe Monteleone, Domenico Edoardo Sfasciamuro and Andrea Villa
The goal of this research is to define a lunar-orbiting system that provides power to the lunar surface through wireless power transmission. To meet the power demand of a lunar base, a constellation of satellites placed in stable orbits is used. Each sat...
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Athul Pradeepkumar Girija, Sarag J. Saikia and James M. Longuski
Small satellite constellations in multiple-inclination, low-circular orbits around Mars and Venus have the potential to perform a range of high-value science investigations within cost-constrained missions. A major challenge for small satellites is that ...
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Andrea Colagrossi and Michèle Lavagna
The capability to orient the solar arrays of a spacecraft toward the Sun is an ultimate asset for any attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS). This ability should be maintained in any operative circumstance, either nominal or off-nominal, to ...
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Yichang Lin and Sheng Liu
Nanocrystalline Bi2S3 shells were conformally deposited on ZnO nanowire arrays via a successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction approach. Microstructure, optical, and electric properties of the as-prepared ZnO/Bi2S3 core/shell nanowire heterostructur...
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Giorgio Capovilla, Enrico Cestino, Leonardo M. Reyneri and Giulio Romeo
CubeSats usually adopt aluminum alloys for primary structures, and a number of studies exist on Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) primary structures. The internal volume of a spacecraft is usually occupied by battery arrays, reducing the volume avai...
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Pia Schuchert, Louise Kregting, Daniel Pritchard, Graham Savidge and Björn Elsäßer
The effects of large scale tidal energy device (TED) arrays on phytoplankton processes owing to the changes in hydrodynamic flows are unknown. Coupled two-dimensional biogeochemical and hydrodynamic models offer the opportunity to predict potential effec...
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Robert R. Mather and John I. B. Wilson
Solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays are providing an increasing fraction of global electrical demand, with an accelerating rate of new installations. Most of these employ conventional glass-fronted panels, but this type of PV array does not satisfy applicatio...
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