Light-weight origami-inspired mechanisms can provide advantages in deployable space
systems and other applications. However, a significant challenge in their design is ensuring …

This paper presents work on the development of an Origami-style solar panel technology.
This approach increases a satellite's solar array's power generation surface area, given …

In the presented work, we studied the alterations of optical properties and electrical
conductivity of polyimide (PI) that had been irradiated by an electron dose similar to that of …

Small satellites have become increasingly popular over the past thirty years, particularly
since the adoption of the common CubeSat architecture early this century. Because of their …

Efficient power generation is crucial to the design of spacecraft. Mass, volume, and other
limitations prevent the use of traditional spacecraft support structures from being suitable for …

Because origami has proved to be a tremendously rich source of inspiration in engineering,
interest in solving some of the challenges that affect origami-inspired design has been …