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MAGESTIC: Magnetically Enabled Structures Using Interacting CoilsIn our NIAC Phase I study, awarded September 2011, the MIT Space Systems Lab (MIT SSL) began investigating a new structural and mechanical technique aimed at reducing the mass and increasing the stowed-to-deployed ratio of spacecraft systems. This technique uses the magnetic fields from current passing through coils of high temperature superconductors (HTSs) to support spacecraft structures and deploy them to operational configurations from their positions as stowed inside a launch vehicle fairing. These electromagnetic coils are tethered or hinged together in such a way that their motion in some directions or around some axes is constrained, as in Figure 1. Our Phase II study,awarded in Fall 2012, continued this work on electromagnetic structures, with an added focus on developing a new thermal system, investigating additional, non-structural electromagnet functions, and creating a maturation roadmap and plan for addressing barriers to feasibility of the technology. We now call the project MAGESTIC, or Magnetically Enabled STructures using Interacting Coils.
Document ID
20190001165
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other
Authors
Saenz-Otero, Alvar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Sedwick, Raymond (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Adams, Carl (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Gettliffe, Gwendolyn V. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
de Soria-Santacruz, Maria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Cohen, Brian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Smart, David (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Bautista, Guillermo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Perez, Aaron (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Lorenzini, Enrico (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Martinez-Sanchez, Manuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Miller, David W. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Porter, Allison (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Schwartz, Zachary (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Kindl, Scott (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Wesenberg, Richard (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
March 4, 2019
Publication Date
November 12, 2018
Subject Category
Spacecraft Propulsion And Power
Report/Patent Number
HQ-E-DAA-TN63105
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX12AQ59G
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Superconductors
Magnetic Fields
Coils
Thermal
High Temperature

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