The need for autonomous power management capabilities will increase as the power levels of spacecraft increase into the multi-100 kW range. The quantity of labor intensive ground and crew support consumed by the 9 kW Skylab cannot be afforded in support of a 75-300 kW Space Station or high power earth orbital and interplanetary spacecraft. Marshall Space Flight Center is managing a program to develop necessary technologies for high power system autonomous management. To date a reference electrical power system and automation approaches have been defined. A test facility for evaluation and verification of management algorithms and hardware has been designed with the first of the three power channel capability nearing completion.


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    Title :

    Autonomously managed high power systems


    Additional title:

    Selbsttaetige Steuerung von Hochenergieanlagen der Raumfahrttechnik


    Contributors:
    Weeks, D.J. (author) / Bechtel, R.T. (author)


    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 3 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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