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Example of an Inner Disk Subsystem, a key element of furled starshade architecture, deployed (left) and stowed, from "Demonstration of deployment repeatability of key subsystems of a furled starshade architecture." Arya et al, one of the papers in the JATIS special section focusing on starshade technology.

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Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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