Opterus Research and Development, Inc.

To support the development of future AF resilient spacecraft bus architectures for space mobility, GMTI and space domain awareness Opterus seeks to improve upon deployable and retractable rollable bla ...

The Stiffened Thin Panel (STP) array is a modular solar array comprised of five principle components: top panel frames, bottom panel frames, morphing webs, Thinned Cell Panels (TCPs), and flexural com ...

In the Phase II effort Opterus will conduct mechanical design, analysis, prototype, and test a morphing yoke architecture for the Modular Self Stiffening Array (MOSSA). Opterus’ MOSSA addresses mult ...

The Department of the Navy (DON) has a national security related need for highly compactible deployable structures for air-deployed canister sonobuoys. These systems must stow compactly within the con ...

Solar Sail Tubular Mast (SSTM) is a lightweight version of Opterusrsquo; patented High Strain Composite (HSC) Trussed Collapsible Tubular Mast (T-CTM). SSTM is a high-performance truss of tape-springs ...

The 50 kW-Class Retractable ndash; Rollable Mast Array (R-ROMA) vertically deployed and retractable solar array in addition to its critical enabling components: the Trussed Collapsible Tubular Mast (T ...

The proposed innovation is to adapt Opterusrsquo; high strain composite boom and deployer technologies and apply the low-mass, low-power dust tolerant technology to robotic arms for low-gravity enviro ...

Opterus addresses the small spacecraft reflector challenge with its patent pending Spiral Wrapped Antenna Technology (SWATH). SWATH is a fully continuous, solid surface deployable parabolic reflector ...

Opterus proposes a trade study between two Solar Array Pedestal Tripod (Pedestal) designs, which are base architectures for the Opterus R-ROMA array for a lunar surface mission. The trade study will f ...

Opterus proposes Tubular Truss Additive Manufacturing (TTAM), a robotically positioned printhead for in-space additive manufacturing of large, high-performance space trusses, under the subtopic ldquo; ...