Communication-Energy-Propulsion Integration Theory and Method Joint Research for enabling Multi Functional Large Space Structures

众所周知，深空探测是昂贵的，因此飞行频率远远低于需求。廉价的小型卫星任务可以缓解这一问题，但它们面临技术挑战：能源/资源限制严重限制了推进、发电和通信。如果可展开结构增加在轨航天器子系统的几何尺寸，这个问题可能会大大减少。虽然可展开的单一功能大型结构的概念已经在使用中，但目前最先进的技术产生了以下工作建议：将多个关键资源功能融合到一个大型可展开空间结构中，以提高深空任务性能。

Deep Space Exploration is known to be expensive and therefore flight frequency is much below demand. Inexpensive small satellite missions could ease this problem, but they suffer from a technical challenge: energy/resource restriction severely limit propulsion, electrical power generation and communication. This problem might significantly be reduced if deployable structures increase the geometrical size of spacecraft subsystems in orbit. While the concept of deployable mono-functional large structures is already in use, the current state-of-the art technology gives rise to the following work proposal: Fuse multiple key resource functionalities into one large deployable space structure to increase deep space mission performance.