Terra flexible blanket solar array deployment, on-orbit performance and future applications

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 1061-1066

  Kurland, Richard ^a   Schurig, Hans ^a   Rosenfeld, Mark ^a   Herriage, Michael ^a   Gaddy, Edward ^b   Keys, Denney ^b   Faust, Carl ^c   Andiario, William ^c   Kurtz, Michelle ^d   Moyer, Eric ^d  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Valley Forge   (United States)

^d Lockheed Martin Space Operations Mission Engineering and Ground Operations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE WINGS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NASA; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CELLS; SPACECRAFT;

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM SATELLITES; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; MECHANICAL COMPONENTS; MULTI-JUNCTION CELLS; ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE; QUALIFICATION TESTING; SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYMENT;

ORBITS;

EID: 67650978969     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2000.916070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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