A tooling design for rapid assembly of astral structures

Abstract

most of the antenna support structures in communication satellites are closed or semi-closed box structures. The box structure is mainly composed of honeycomb sandwich structure (referred to as structural plate). Each structural plate is not connected structurally and is bonded to form a component. The configuration of antenna support structure is different, so the process of bonding molding needs to positioned by special tooling designed for the interface of each structure plate. In this paper, a general positioning fixture is designed. Only according to different types of antenna support structure, the connecting plate is designed to realize the gluing assembly of different configurations of antenna support structure quickly and efficiently. The fixture can be applied to other satellite antenna support structures and similar products