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One year of flight data from the PASP Plus experiment
Author(s) -
Curtis Henry,
Marvin Dean
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
progress in photovoltaics: research and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.286
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1099-159X
pISSN - 1062-7995
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-159x(199603/04)4:2<139::aid-pip129>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - concentrator , planar , spacecraft , aerospace engineering , solar cell , domain (mathematical analysis) , variety (cybernetics) , government (linguistics) , physics , space (punctuation) , optics , environmental science , engineering , computer science , mathematics , computer graphics (images) , optoelectronics , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , operating system
Results from the first year of operation of the PASP Plus flight experiment are given. The experiment consists of sixteen individual solar cell modules on twelve different panels. Both planar and concentrator technologies are represented as well as sev eral different cell types. The orbit is 363 × 2552 km at an inclination of 70°. There are two main purposes of PASP Plus: to determine the interactions between the space plasma and solar arrays biased to ±500 V and to determine the long‐t erm radiation performance of a wide variety of solar cell types. © This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America