A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a "bay" 501 of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays 501 are then placed into frame structures made of tubes 1501 connected by nodes 1503, 1505, 1507, 1509 to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.


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    Titel :

    MODULAR SOLAR ARRAY


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    MODULARE SOLARANLAGE
    RÉSEAU SOLAIRE MODULAIRE


    Beteiligte:
    YATES HARRY A (Autor:in) / HSIEH TOM (Autor:in) / BIENIEK RYAN (Autor:in) / KWONG BEN (Autor:in) / SZOMBATHY ROBERT (Autor:in) / MEERMAN MARTINUS (Autor:in) / OEY FREDERICK (Autor:in) / AMNUAYPAYOAT PETER (Autor:in) / SZETO ALAN J (Autor:in) / WARNOCK RICHARD B (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-04-12


    Medientyp :

    Patent


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    IPC:    H02S GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-RED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES , Erzeugung elektrischer Energie durch Umwandlung von Infrarot-Strahlung, sichtbarem Licht oder ultraviolettem Licht, z.B. unter Verwendung von Photovoltaik [PV]-Modulen / B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS



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