Following successful operation of a developmental flywheel energy storage system in fiscal year 2000, researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center began developing a flight design of a flywheel system for the International Space Station (ISS). In such an application, a two-flywheel system can replace one of the nickel-hydrogen battery strings in the ISS power system. The development unit, sized at approximately one-eighth the size needed for ISS was run at 60,000 rpm. The design point for the flight unit is a larger composite flywheel, approximately 17 in. long and 13 in. in diameter, running at 53,000 rpm when fully charged. A single flywheel system stores 2.8 kW-hr of useable energy, enough to light a 100-W light bulb for over 24 hr. When housed in an ISS orbital replacement unit, the flywheel would provide energy storage with approximately 3 times the service life of the nickel-hydrogen battery currently in use.
Flywheel Energy Storage System Designed for the International Space Station
2002-03-01
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International Space Station attitude motion associated with flywheel energy storage
American Institute of Physics | 2000
|International Space Station Attitude Motion Associated with Flywheel Energy Storage
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000
|Application of advanced flywheel technology for energy storage on space station
Tema Archive | 1988
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