Goddard Space Flight Center solar array missions, requirements and directions
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) develops and operates a wide variety of spacecraft for conducting NASA`s communications, space science, and earth science missions. Some are `in house` spacecraft for which the GSFC builds the spacecraft and performs all solar array design, analysis, integration, and test. Others are `out of house` spacecraft for which an aerospace contractor builds the spacecraft and develops the solar array under direction from GSFC. The experience of developing flight solar arrays for numerous GSFC `in house` and `out of house` spacecraft has resulted in an understanding of solar array requirements for many different applications. This presentation will review those solar array requirements that are common to most GSFC spacecraft. Solar array technologies will be discussed that are currently under development and that could be useful to future GSFC spacecraft.
- Research Organization:
- NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 36411
- Report Number(s):
- N-95-20502; NASA-CP-3278; E-9083; NAS-1.55:3278; CONF-9406314-; TRN: 9520503
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. space photovoltaic research and technology conference, Cleveland, OH (United States), 14-16 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 13th Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology Conference (SPRAT 13); PB: 421 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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