Multi-Object Payload Deployment

The efficiency of future missile defense systems may be improved by increasing the interceptor vehicle payload on each launch vehicle.The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a technique, which is mass and energy efficient, for controlling the safe and precise deployment of those interceptor vehicles.Pairing programmable permanent magnets arrays with a controlled array of electromagnets in a compact payload restraint and deployment mechanism will free-up mass, volume, and electrical power resources while eliminating shock and induced loads during payload deployment.Magnetic fastener tension can be tailored to exactly what is needed at any time, relaxed smoothly when needed, and reversed to provide repulsion forces distributed geometrically and temporally to yield desired payload deployment dynamics.This enables an efficient solution for all operational phases of the payload:(1) Payload Integration, (2) Minimum Restraint, (3) Power-Off Restraint, (4) Maximum Restraint, and (5) Dynamic Deployment.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))