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Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:08

L'Garde Inc.

L’Garde Inc aims to be a world leader in the development of inflatable and deployable structures for terrestrial and space applications.  

L’Garde was founded in 1971 in Orange County, CA to support ballistic missile defense through the development and manufacture of inflatable targets and decoy systems.  Since that time L’Garde has developed a wealth of knowledge about deployable space systems that include:

  • targets and countermeasures,
  • deployable space antennas,
  • in-space propulsion,
  • deployable space structures,
  • and deployable terrestrial systems.
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:01

Sunjammer (spacecraft)

Sunjammer is a solar sail constructed by LGarde for NASA.

It is the largest solar sail to be constructed as of 2013. Sunjammer is slated to launch in November 2014 as the secondary payload of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with the Earth observation satellite DSCOVR.

Sunjammer was named after a 1964 Arthur C. Clarke story of the same name, in which several solar sails compete in a race across the Solar System.

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