The preliminary plans for system-level thermal vacuum environmental testing of the protoflight photovoltaic power module in the NASA Lewis Space Power Facility (SPF) are presented. Details of the facility modifications to refurbish SPF, after 13 years of downtime, are briefly discussed. The results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of system-level environmental testing in screening out incipient part and workmanship defects and unique failure modes are discussed. Preliminary test objectives, hardware configuration, support equipment, and operations are presented.
Protoflight photovoltaic power module system-level tests in the space power facility
Flugähnliche Tests der Sonnenbatteriemodule auf Systemniveau in der Space Power Facility
1989
15 Seiten, 27 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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