Development of Full-Scale Ultrathin Shell Reflector

Table 5

Comparison of new design, SSBR, and AstroMesh.

	New Design	SSBR [1–4]	AstroMesh [15]
Aperture Diameter, m	6	6	6
F/D	0.8	0.8	0.64
Offset, m	0.3	0.3	0.75
Mass, kg	12.06	23.6	14.50
Fundamental frequency, Hz	1.99	1.87	2.00
Number of parts	Monolithic	Monolithic	Many (nets, meshes, ring truss, etc.)
Manufacturing and assembly	Easier	Easy	Difficult