Created: 2020-05-09
Updated: 2023-03-12
Company - ABM Space
Product/Service - Golden Fleece
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
3D Printing Electronics
- Fields
- Electronics
Solar Sail
Asteroids
- Status
- Dormant
- First launch
- Not announced
Golden Fleece
Golden Fleece is an intelligent solar sail concept. Won Space Exploration Masters 2017 – Airbus Merck KGaA Sustainable Space Exploration Prize.
Golden Fleece tackles important areas of sustainable space exploration, relevant for space & Earth: From in-space & additive manufacturing, to stretchable electronics, coatings, and organic photovoltaic – utilising in-situ resources and cross-industry know-how.
- Its active structure provides increased control and performance and allows partial integration of spacecraft electronics with the sail base.
- The target production method assumes coating with nanophase materials extracted in-situ from asteroids. It solves the problem of the absence of volatiles for in-situ propellant production on bodies where only metallic materials are present. It allows overall craft mass reduction and transporting of the raw material in a form of coating to the target location, where it is recycled. Cargo becomes a propellant.
- The technology is developed for present deep space system integrators, future space mining and exploration integrators, as well as for EX-PL Consortium ARGO FLEET space mining probes.
- Traditional coating technologies, such as ink jet and spray tech, will be adapted to space conditions.
- The concept also allows for the efficient production of flexible electronics on Earth, in-situ and in-orbit, including space spare parts, as well as the development of recycling in space.
Golden Fleece can be adapted to efficient deorbit sails for direct commercialisation on satellite constellations. Benefits:
- Increased control of solar sails and in-orbit production and repairs.
- Reduced mass of deep space probes and Earth satellites by integrating systems, propulsion and cargo container in a single structure.
- In-orbit industry relieves pressure on the Earth environment.
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