This paper discusses requirements for large earth orbiting power stations that can serve as central utilities for other orbiting spacecraft, or for beaming power to the earth itself. The current state of the art of space solar cells, and a variety of both evolving thin film cells as well as new technologies that may impact the future choice of space solar cells for high power mission applications are addressed.


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    Title :

    Future Photovoltaic Power Generation for Space-Based Power Utilities


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    53rd International Astronautical Congress: The World Space Congress-2002 ; 2002 ; Houston, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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