Large deployable satellite antennas : design theory methods and applications This book discusses the innovative design cable net design and analysis control deployment development and applications of large space deployable antennas. Drawing on the authors’ own work in this field it describes and analyzes various typical deployable antennas membrane antennas and super large space assembled antennas while chiefly focusing on mesh antennas due to their wide range of applications. It also investigates forming–finding design and the analysis of cable truss structures for high precision reflector antennas as well as deployment process control and deployment reliability based on flexible multibody dynamic analysis. The book covers not only mechanical structure performance but also electromagnetic performance realization and stability. Lastly it proposes an electrical equivalent method for mesh reflector antennas and a coupling model for the structural displacement field and electrostatic field. Given the nature of its content the book is intended for researchers graduate students and engineers in the field of space antennas.