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.


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    Title :

    On Orbit Performance of IRS1A 40 Ah Nickel Cadmium Batteries


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992) ; 1992



    Publication date :

    1992-08-03




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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