Assessment of Analog Electronics for Lunar Power Hibernation Non-nuclear robotic spacecraft on the Moon may not reliably operate past the first lunar day due to the subsequent long lunar night with an extreme low temperature range of 50K-100K. To address this concern, the NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a lunar power hibernation protocol that could enable spacecraft to passively survive the lunar night without any additional heating source and then reactivate at lunar dawn. Low cost lunar robotic missions could extend their mission lifetime from a single lunar cycle to potentially many months, thus greatly extending science data gathering and return on investment for commercial missions. This approach centers on evidence that lithium-ion battery cells can recover to full operation after being subjected to cryogenic temperatures. Exploiting this battery capability requires that all spacecraft electronics, including power system and avionics, passively tolerate the extreme cold without degradation. Key elements in the power system will also need to be capable of actively operating in the extreme cold to perform the functions required to restore the system to full operation after solar power returns at lunar dawn. This presentation provides an assessment of extreme-cold tolerance and operational capability of analog electronics where choices in semiconductor material, device type, and circuit fabrication technology has a dramatic impact on circuit behavior and reliability at low temperatures.


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    Titel :

    Assessment of Cryogenic Analog Electronics for Lunar Environment


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Space Power Workshop ; 2022 ; Virtual, US


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


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    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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