Proposition of a new method on the two-dimensional deploying of plane panels and its stabilization

Abstract

With concerns about dependence on fossil fuel and emission of carbon dioxide, a concept of Solar Power Satellite was proposed by Dr. Peter Glaser in America, 1968. The concept is to construct huge solar cell panels in space and send electric energy to earth as micro wave. It was planned in America and in Japan around 1980 as structures whose scale extent is from several hundred meters to kilometers. This thesis will focus on the problem of transportation and construction of such huge plane panel structures and propose how to fold and deploy them twodimensionally and stabilize it.