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Large antenna deployment
22 Views • Nov 23, 2016
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Large-scale antenna reflectors are increasingly required for telecommunications, science and Earth observation missions.
This metal mesh reflector has a ‘double pantograph’ design to form a deployable ring. Once deployed it tensions two opposing, but connected, parabolic shaped nets, one on the top and one on the bottom.
Read more here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Large_antenna_deployment
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