AEROSPATIALE has conducted a study under ESA's contract to design a high power solar array providing basically 30 kW. Main specifications are the compatibility with the European COLUMBUS platform and resource module, low life cycle cost, reliability, multi deployment-retraction ability and low development risk. The concept proposed by AEROSPATIALE is based on interchangeable rigid panels equipped with silicon cells and such pantograph as used on Skylab and some European Earth Observation Satellites' solar arrays. Further advantages of this concept are: modularity at elementary panel (0.5 kW) level, capability of providing power while partially retracted and of withstanding high levels of in-orbit loads.
High power rigid solar array
Starre Hochleistungssonnenzellenanordnung
1985
6 Seiten, 16 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 6 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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