ONE-YEAR OF FLIGHT DATA FROM THE PASP PLUS EXPERIMENT

Authors
Citation
H. Curtis et D. Marvin, ONE-YEAR OF FLIGHT DATA FROM THE PASP PLUS EXPERIMENT, Progress in photovoltaics, 4(2), 1996, pp. 139-146
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Physics, Applied
Journal title
ISSN journal
10627995
Volume
4
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
139 - 146
Database
ISI
SICI code
1062-7995(1996)4:2<139:OOFDFT>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Results from the first year of operation of the PASP Plus flight exper iment are given. The experiment consists of sixteen individual solar c ell modules on twelve different panels. Both planar and concentrator t echnologies are represented as well as several different cell types. T he orbit is 363 x 2552 km at an inclination of 70 degrees. There are t wo main purposes of PASP Plus: to determine the interactions between t he space plasma and solar arrays biased to +/-500 V and to determine t he long-term radiation performance of a wide variety of solar cell typ es.