Prototype solar panel development and testing for a Mercury orbiter spacecraft

Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 449-459

  Ercol, Carl J ^a   Jenkins, Jason E ^a   Dakermanji, George ^a   Santo, Andrew G ^a   Mason, Lee S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; PLANETS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SPACE RESEARCH; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

DISCOVERY MISSION; MERCURY ORBITER SPACECRAFT; PLANET MERCURY; SPACECRAFT THERMAL CONTROL;

SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES;

EID: 0033696790     PISSN: 0146955X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IECEC.2000.870725     Document Type: Article

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