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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2004
Joseph C. Munder, Doylestown, PA (US);
Joseph C. Munder, Doylestown, PA (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A cable restraint/deployment mechanism is disclosed for deploying an object in space from a spacecraft. To deploy the object, the cable restraint/deployment mechanism cuts a cable attached to the spacecraft and the object. For example, a spacecraft may include a solar panel array that is restrained by the spacecraft in a stowed form through the use of a wire rope cable. The cable may be affixed at one end to a deployable object. The other end of the cable is affixed to the spacecraft through a cutting mechanism, such as a pyrotechnically actuated cutting device. The cutting mechanism cuts the cable at a swaged sleeve of the cable. The swaged sleeve of the cable substantially prevents splaying of the cable and cutting debris.