• DocumentCode
    3447992
  • Title

    Trade studies of a photovoltaic power system for a solar probe

  • Author

    Landis, Geoffrey A. ; Jacobs, Robert E. ; Scheiman, David A.

  • Author_Institution
    NASA John Glenn Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    7-12 June 2009
  • Abstract
    For a solar array powering a mission designed to operate near the sun, a trade study was performed to calculate the effect of changing the operating temperature of the solar array on the required area of the thermal radiator required to moderate the array temperature.
  • Keywords
    astronomical instruments; solar cells; space vehicle power plants; photovoltaic power system; solar array; solar probe; thermal radiator; Cooling; Earth; Gold; NASA; Photovoltaic systems; Physics; Probes; Space vehicles; Sun; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2009 34th IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Philadelphia, PA
  • ISSN
    0160-8371
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2949-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0160-8371
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411660
  • Filename
    5411660