Space Webs

Net-Like Infrastructure / Low Gravity Bodies
Concept: a multifunctional net that grapples to a low gravity body and serves as foundational infrastructure
Academic Publications:

[FORTHCOMING] "Grappler: Bistable Pinching Arrays For Deploying Net-Like Infrastructure on Low Gravity Bodies." (AIAA Scitech Conference, 2019) This project explores the use of bistable arrays for pinching net-like structures to low gravity bodies, including evaluation of a rapid prototype on a microgravity flight

"Space Webs as Infrastructure for Crawling Sensors on Low Gravity Bodies." (AIAA SmallSat Conference, 2017). (This paper considers the use of nets for deploying an array of distributed crawling spectrometers on a low gravity body, including assessment of a candidate spectrometer for identifying iron content in meteorite samples)