First results from the Starshine 3 power technology experiment

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 788-791

  Jenkins, Phillip ^a   Kerslake, Thomas ^b   Scheiman, David ^a   Wilt, David ^b   Button, Robert ^b   Miller, Thomas ^b   Piszczor, Michael ^b   Curtis, Henry ^b  

^a OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHIUM BATTERIES; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SOLAR CELLS; TECHNOLOGY;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES; POWER TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT; RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036957007     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Gil Moore, Bill Braun, Phillip, Jenkins, Walter Holemans, and Don Lefevre, "Starshine Missions in 2001," Proceedings of the 15th Annual/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan UT, August 2001.
2. Publication is currently in review.
3. The authors wish to express their gratitude to the following amateur radio program operators for the data collected from Starshine 3. GOSFJ, G8ATE, GOVRM, JA3TDW, JA1CTU, LW2DTZ, JE9PEL NA1DBM, KN4HH, F6AGR, ZS7ANT, ZR1CBC, ZS4AGA, KA7ILU, KB0VBZ, GOVRM, IT9GSV, F5DJL, ON1BKD, KC8SRG, A71EY, KG6GIQ
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