FSAs future role

Abstract

The latest thinking about how the Flat-Plate Solar Array Project (FSA), will redirect activities away from recent product-oriented technology development efforts and toward longer-term research on technical problems that could limit future large-scale use of photovoltaics is addressed. With the emphasis on research, the Project is now organizing a series of workshops addressing the key basic technological questions by specific topic. Intervals between Project Integration Meetings are being extended because there are fewer contracts within ESA and because work under those contracts has been attenuated.