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Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
2000 Phase
II
Dimensionally-Stable Articulated Deployable Mast
AEC-Able Engineering Company, Inc.
Goleta, CA
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INNOVATION
Self-preloaded truss structure for SAR and radar interferometry instruments
with excellent mechanical and thermal stability
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Truss Structures Provide Rigid Stable
Support
for Wide Swath Ocean Altimeter Instrument
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Conducted detailed design work and
kinematics analyses to validate truss structure
- Built a full-scale prototype and demonstrated through tests the mast's stowage,
deployment and fully deployed stiffness characteristics
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COMMERCIALIZATION
- Commercial users of imagery for telecommunications, nonrenewable
extraction and forestry are potential future customers
- Environmental studies, natural resource management, disaster management,
industrial planning, surveying are generating a large market for
radar imaging data
- AEC-Able Engineering Company was purchased by ATK, Inc.
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- Received $400,000 for NuSTAR development work before cancellation
- Baselined for the Wide Swath Ocean Altimeter (WSOA) instrument
before cancellation
- Future Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and radar interferometry
instrument missions
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