This analysis was undertaken to determine the magni¬tude of bending that can be expected in extremely long extendible booms such as those employed in gravity-gradient stabilization systems or as low-frequency antennas aboard earth-oriented satellites.nIt is simple enough to demonstrate that boom bending will occur due to the imbalance of gravitational and centrifugal forces that exists on particles of an orbiting body not at the center of mass. This is shown by what follows for a specific configuration.
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