NASA NTRS · 19890027934
Status of Advanced Photovoltaic Solar Array program
Abstract
The current development status of ultralightweight flexible-blanket foldout solar arrays being designed and fabricated under the NASA Advanced Photovoltaic Solar Array (APSA) program is surveyed. The goal of APSA is the construction of a 25-kW array with specific power 300 W/kg (BOL) by the year 2000. Topics discussed here include array configurations, blanket deployment systems, prototype wing-hardware fabrication, component-level test results, solar-cell technologies, and array performance estimates. Diagrams, drawings, graphs, and tables of numerical data are provided.
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Kurland, Richard, Stella, Paul. 1988-01-01. Status of Advanced Photovoltaic Solar Array program. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890027934
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