RECENT PROGRESS IN ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES FOR SPACE

Within the past 10 years, substantial research in Adaptive Structures is evident and continues its integration into various space experiment s and missions. The rapid integration is attributable to solutions Ada ptive Structures potentially provides to many anticipated space challe nges in large precision space structures and small spacecraft; and com mercial availability of reliable actuator materials. The emphasis of t he paper is on space experiments related to Adaptive Structures within the past two years. (C) 1997 International Astronautical Federation. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.