A new type of small spacecraft, the cubesat, has introduced a new concept for extremely small, low-cost missions into space. Cubesats are designed to be launched as secondary payloads on other missions, and are made up of unit elements (U) of size 10 cm by 10 cm by 10 cm, with a nominal mass of no more than 1.33 kg per U. We have designed a cubesat, OPTEC (Orbital Photovoltaic Testbed Cubesat) as a low-cost testbed to demonstrate, calibrate, and test solar cell technologies in space. Size of the cubesat is 2U (10x10x20cm, and the mass 2.66 kg. The cubesat deploys from the International Space Station into Low Earth Orbit at an altitude of about 420 km. Up to two 4x8cm test solar panels can be flown, with full I-V curves and temperature measurements taken.


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    Titel :

    OPTEC: A Cubesat for Solar Cell Calibration


    Beteiligte:
    Landis, Geoffrey (Autor:in) / Hepp, Aloysius (Autor:in) / Arutyunov, Dennis (Autor:in) / White, Kelsey (Autor:in) / Witsberger, Paul (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology (SPRAT) Conference ; 2014 ; Cleveland, OH, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    28.10.2014


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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