This presentation focuses on COTS Battery testing for energy content, toxicity, hazards, failures modes and controls for different battery chemistries. It also discusses the current program requirements, challenges with COTS Batteries in manned vehicle COTS methodology, JSC test details, and gives a list of incidents from consumer protection safety commissions. The Battery test process involved testing new batteries for engineering certification, qualification of batteries, flight acceptance, cell and battery, environment, performance and abuse. Their conclusions and recommendations were that: high risk is undertaken with the use of COTS batteries, hazard control verification is required to allow the use of these batteries on manned space flights, failures during use cannot be understood if different scenarios of failure are not tested on the ground, and that testing is performed on small sample numbers due to restrictions on cost and time. They recommend testing of large sample size to gain more confidence in the operation of the hazard controls.


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    Title :

    Use of COTS Batteries on ISS and Shuttle


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Payload Safety and Mission Success Conference 2004 ; 2004 ; Cape Canaveral,FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2004-04-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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