Space Solar Power Review Vol 3 Num 4 1982

accomplished in one of three ways when dealing with ten components at '/io increments: [I| 10 components with one component per spoke calls for 10 spokes, as shown in Fig. 3. This planar configuration, although the most stable and the safest, requires many expensive structural redundancies. It offers 6-dimensional stability in motion. [2] Ten components with two components per spoke calls for 5 spokes as presented in Fig. 4. This planar configuration is more efficient and still offers 6-dimensional stability in motion, with adequate safety and dampening stability. |3] Ten components with five components per spoke calls for 2 spokes as illustrated in Fig. 5. This configuration cannot be solved because the 2-blade system forces a linear solution to a quadratic equation (Rm2), and therefore it can not offer 6-dimensional stability and will tend to roll over and warp. The five-blade scheme was considered the compromised, optimized configuration

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