Direct NASA applications with present and future inflatable structures programs include long term manned spaceflight habitats, and those missions seeking to provide deceleration and precision landing capability for large scale mass return from Earth orbit to Earth surface or for missions to many of the potential atmosphere-endowed solar system destinations. Other NASA applications include design and analysis of space-based inflatable structures such as telescopes, antenna reflectors, solar collectors, lander airbags, cryogenic propellant tanks, debris shields, Martian air ships and rover vehicles.
Non-NASA commercial applications include satellite de-orbit devices, compressed air energy storage, high altitude airships, fuel and oxidizer containment, deep space antenna reflector for ground stations, antenna radome, emergency shelters, and troop shelters with integrated ballistic protection
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