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CHEM-Based Self-Deploying Planetary Storage Tanks

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Saturday, December 01 2007
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A document proposes self-deploying storage tanks, based on the cold elastic hibernated memory (CHEM) concept, to be used on remote planets. The CHEM concept, described in previous NASA Tech Briefs articles, involves the use of open-cell shape-memory-polymer (SMP) foam sandwich structures to make lightweight, space-deployable structures that can be compressed for storage and can later be expanded, then rigidified for use.

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