Study on Synthesis and Characterization of Large Space Structures. Part 3: Characterization and Synthesis

摘要

Indexes of technology feasibility are applied to different mission configurations in order to provide a nonempirical quantization of the realization complexity for a given large space structure (LSS). The meaning and limitations of the mission selection are considered. The indexes are recalled and summarized while their significance, their applicability and their use for generating LSS categories are explained. The characterization diagrams are presented and extensively discussed. They provide the basis for the classification which is founded on morphological as well as on functional characteristics of the systems. The characteristic families and twenty morphological/functional categories are proposed. The main mechanical requirements for each category are then logically associated to the characteristics indexes so that a table of typical technological development requirements results. The most important near term development areas, thus identified, are briefly outlined.