The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS 1A was launched on March 17, 1988. The energy storage for this spacecraft was by two 40Ah nickel-cadmium batteries operating between 7% to 8% DOD. The performance of these batteries show marginal degradation over the 3 year mission life.
On Orbit Performance of IRS1A 40 Ah Nickel Cadmium Batteries
Sae Technical Papers
27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992) ; 1992
1992-08-03
Conference paper
English
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