The New Millennium Program power technology [space power]

Author

Chmielewski, A.B. ; Das, Alok ; Cassapakis, Costa ; Allen, Doug ; Schafer, W.J. ; Sercel, Joel ; Deligiannis, Frank ; Piszczor, Mike ; Jones, P. Alan ; Barnett, David M. ; Rawal, Suraj ; Reddy, Thomas

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

11-16 Aug 1996

Firstpage

2193

Abstract

The New Millennium Program (NMP) has been established to accelerate the infusion of breakthrough technologies into NASA space science missions. The goal of this technology infusion is to fulfill the NASA vision of frequent, low-cost missions to deep space and to planet Earth. Power is one of the most important keys to cost-effective space science missions. The power subsystem comprises over 25 percent of the mass of a typical deep space orbiter-type spacecraft. The problems of power will become even more acute in the new millennium as deep space missions are asked to go farther from the Sun and get to their destinations faster. The proposals described in this paper received the most consideration and in several cases resulted in the technology being selected for flight on one of the NMP missions. The technologies discussed here are the: SCARLET array; light flexible array; lithium ion battery; cold temperature battery; inflatable concentrators; and a related technology-multifunctional structures

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; project engineering; secondary cells; solar cell arrays; solar cells; solar energy concentrators; space research; space vehicle power plants; Li; Li-ion secondary batteries; NASA space science missions; New Millennium Program; SCARLET array; cold temperature battery; cost-effectiveness; deep space missions; deep space orbiter-type spacecraft; inflatable concentrators; light flexible array; multifunctional structures; solar arrays; solar space power; Acceleration; Batteries; Earth; NASA; Optical arrays; Planets; Space missions; Space technology; Space vehicles; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1089-3547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3547-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1996.561157

Filename

561157