Flight experience of solar mesosphere explorer's power system over high temperatures ranges
- Author:
- Faber, Jack
- Published:
- Sep 1, 1987.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Hurley, Daniel
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- The performance of the power system on the Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME) satellite for the life of the mission and the techniques used to ensure power system health are summarized. Early in the mission high cell imbalances in one of the batteries resulted in a loading scheme which attempted to minimize the cell imbalances without causing an undervoltage condition. A short term model of the power system allowed planners to predict depth of discharge using the latest available data. Due to expected orbital shifts the solar arrays experience extended periods of no eclipse. This has required special conditioning schemes to keep the batteries healthy when the eclipses return. Analysis of the SME data indicates long term health of the SME power system as long as the conditioning scheme is continued.
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- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 19880001655.
Accession ID: 88N11037.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The 1986 Goddard Space Flight Center Battery Workshop; p 301-308. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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