Power is a critical commodity for all engineering efforts and is especially challenging in the aerospace field. This paper will provide a broad brush overview of some of the immediate and important challenges to NASA missions in the field of aerospace power, for generation, energy conversion, distribution, and storage. NASA s newest vehicles which are currently in the design phase will have power systems that will be developed from current technology, but will have the challenges of being light-weight, energy-efficient, and space-qualified. Future lunar and Mars 'outposts' will need high power generation units for life support and energy-intensive exploration efforts. An overview of the progress in concepts for power systems and the status of the required technologies are discussed.


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    Title :

    Overview of Space Power Systems for NASA Missions


    Contributors:
    V. J. Lyons (author) / J. H. Scott (author)

    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    16 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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