Space verification of advanced deployable structure by using nano-satellite

Recently, space science mission has been more and more complicated and advanced. Its scale has been larger and larger. Accordingly deployable structure grows increasingly important. The space verification is quite important or necessary for deployable structures that have not been proved in space. Thus more and more opportunities with low-cost are desired for the space verification. Nano-satellite in low earth orbit is most suitable for the test-bed of the small scale model of the structures. Moreover, such a deployable structure can be used as the deorbit device, so that it can be a solution of the space debris issue. This paper discusses the importance and the methodology of the space verification of the key technologies for advanced large deployable structures by using nano-satellites.