LSS and its staff have produced a wide range of reflector demonstrators during the last decade, partially at TU München.
Previous Reflector Demonstrators
ESA project SCALABLE
TRP, development of a 5 m deployable double shifted pantograph ring with FlexRS® Category II metal mesh based reflecting surface supported by a cable network. In cooperation with HPS, Germany.
ESA Project LABUM
TRP, 5 m diameter LDR demonstrator with FlexRS® Category I reflecting surface, LLB/TUM, Germany
ESA project LABUM
TRP, deployment of a 1.6 m breadboard of an LDR with double pantograph ring and FlexRS® Category I reflecting surface, LLB/TUM, Germany
1.6 m umbrella type deployable LDR demonstrator with FlexRS® Category I reflecting surface, LLB/TUM, Germany
ESA project TALDES
TRP, 6 m diameter shifted double pantograph ring based LDR demonstrator, LLB/TUM, Germany (LSS has further advanced this architecture in the ESA project SCALABLE)
ESA project TALDES
TRP, 1.6 m and 4 m diameter LDR demonstrators based on a double pantograph ring (ESA patent 596), LLB/TUM Germany with Georgian Technical University, Georgia
ESA project TALDES
TRP, 6 m LDR demonstrator based on a conical ring structure (ESA patent 568), LLB/TUM Germany with Georgian Technical University, Georgia
ESA project RAO
ARTES 5.1: Reconfigurable flexible shell reflecting surface, LLB/TUM, Germany
ESA project RECORA
TRP, reconfigurable reflector antenna, LLB/TUM, Germany