CLASP Composite Lightweight Array with Shape-memory Polymer
CTD (Composite Technology Development)
Deployable composite solar array with shape-memory polymer hinges: over 250 W/kg specific power and 110 kW/m3 packaging efficiency, CubeSat dispenser compatible.
Typed specifications6 values
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- Form factor (as printed)
- CubeSat dispenser compatible datasheet p.5
- Deployable
- yes datasheet p.5
- Flight heritage
- CLASP Flight Qualified datasheet p.9
- Satellite class
- CubeSat CubeSat dispenser compatible · datasheet p.4
- Deployment mechanism (as printed)
- shape-memory polymer (Composite Lightweight Array with Shape-memory Polymer) datasheet p.5
- Specific power
- 250 W/kg min · exceeds 250 W/kg · datasheet p.4
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As published by the supplier7 lines, in the manufacturer's own wording
- Specific power
- Exceeds 250 W/kg
- Packaging efficiency
- 110 kW/m3
- Deployment
- Shape-memory polymer based composite architecture
- Dispenser compatibility
- CubeSat dispenser compatible
- Pv cells
- Accommodates all PV cells; fit for purpose and mission budget
- Design
- Simple design with low parts count
- Status
- CLASP flight qualified (2015-2020 period per CTD timeline)
About
CLASP, the Composite Lightweight Array with Shape-memory Polymer, is CTD’s packaging and deployment architecture for spacecraft solar power generation. CTD presents it as the most efficient packaging and deployment performance architecture for spacecraft solar power generation, enabling missions previously out of reach by reducing complexity and cost.
Specific power exceeds 250 W/kg and packaging efficiency reaches 110 kW/m3. The design is simple with a low parts count and high performance, is CubeSat dispenser compatible, maximizes payload volume, and accommodates all PV cells so the array can be fitted for purpose and mission budget.
CTD positions CLASP in the high-power, high-packaging-efficiency quadrant of its own trade space chart, against first-generation arrays with low power and low packaging efficiency. CLASP was flight qualified in the 2015-2020 period.
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