Origami-Inspired Optical Shield for a Starshade Inner Disk Testbed: Design, Fabrication, and Analysis

AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum(2021)

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In 2019, a 10 m-diameter starshade inner disk test article was assembled; this test article demonstrated deployment accuracy sufficient for starshade mission concepts. Here, we describe the design, fabrication, and computational structural analysis of a key inner disk component realized for this effort: the origami-folded optical shield. The optical shield is a 10 m-diameter lightweight cover that makes the inner disk opaque. It stows within a 2.3 m-diameter volume by using an origami-inspired wrapping pattern, and is deployed passively by the inner disk perimeter truss. The fold pattern was generated by a custom algorithm based on existing generative design approaches. This prototype demonstrated critical functions: stowage in a compact volume, static equilibrium when stowed and deployed, and low strain when stowed. Four separate computational structural analysis models of the optical shield were developed, at varying levels of fidelity and using a variety of software solutions: Abaqus, RAPID, and ADAMS. These models were intended to pathfind approaches for modeling the stowage and deployment of the inner disk, and to demonstrate that the optical shield is amenable to existing structural modeling approaches. These models were found to adequately capture pertinent stowage and deployment behavior of the optical shield prototype.
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starshade inner disk testbed,optical,origami-inspired
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