Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Nec Toshiba Space Systems, Ltd.

Nec Space Technologies, Ltd.

Kyoji Shintate

Kiyoshi Fujii

Minoru Tabata

Satoru Ozawa

A deployable antenna reflector includes a surface cable network formed of a plurality of cables coupled to each other in a mesh pattern. The surface cable network includes at least one rigid rod member that reduces a maximum tensile force caused in the surface cable network.

Deployable antenna reflector

A deployable antenna which has a larger aperture diameter by four-side links provided in at least three stages and which includes: six deployment link mechanisms () arranged radially from a central shaft so as to support an outer edge portion of a flexible reflector mirror surface; and one deployment driving mechanism () arranged at a lower portion of a center of arrangement of the six deployment link mechanisms, for unfolding the six deployment link mechanisms. Each of the six deployment link mechanisms includes a first four-side link (), a second four-side link (), and a third four-side link () arranged in an order from a position of the central shaft, around which the six deployment link mechanisms are arranged, toward an outer side of the each of the six deployment link mechanisms so that the each of the six deployment link mechanisms is structured to be foldable in three stages.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Kyoji Shintate