{"id":203449,"date":"2025-01-09T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/flexible-electronics-integrated-with-paper-thin-structure-for-use-in-space"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:36:30","slug":"flexible-electronics-integrated-with-paper-thin-structure-for-use-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/flexible-electronics-integrated-with-paper-thin-structure-for-use-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Flexible electronics integrated with paper-thin structure for use in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flexible-electronics-integrated-with-paper-thin-structure-for-use-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Innovative integration of flexible electronics with a lightweight, self-deployable boom offers multifunctionality for space applications. This ultrathin composite structure, designed to withstand harsh space conditions, enhances satellite capabilities. The Virginia Tech CubeSat, featuring this technology, is set for a 2025 launch.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Being lightweight is essential for space structures, particularly for tools used on already small, lightweight satellites. The ability to perform multiple functions is a bonus. To address these characteristics in a new way, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign successfully integrated flexible electronics with a three-ply, self-deployable boom that weighs only about 20 grams.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2352431624001275?dgcid=author\" target=\"_blank\">study,<\/a> \u201cMultifunctional bistable ultrathin composite booms with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/flexible+electronics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flexible electronics<\/a>,\u201d by Yao Yao and Xin Ning from Illinois, Juan Fernandez from NASA Langley Research Center and Sven Bil\u00e9n at Penn State, is published in Extreme Mechanics Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to get commercial electronics integrated into these super thin structures,\u201d said Xin Ning, an aerospace professor in The Grainger College of Engineering at U. of I. \u201cThere were a lot of engineering constraints adding to the challenge of making the electronics able to withstand the harsh environment of space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative integration of flexible electronics with a lightweight, self-deployable boom offers multifunctionality for space applications. This ultrathin composite structure, designed to withstand harsh space conditions, enhances satellite capabilities. The Virginia Tech CubeSat, featuring this technology, is set for a 2025 launch. Being lightweight is essential for space structures, particularly for tools used on already small, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}