Progress in spacecraft electric power system technologies for deep space missions

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Bankston, C P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; NUCLEAR BATTERIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPACECRAFT;

COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; NICKEL HYDROGEN BATTERIES; POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; RADIOISOTOPE POWER SOURCES; THERMAL-TO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 84983185711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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