Deployable Solar Panel Array

Description of the preferred embodiments the present invention provides a deployable solar cell array represented in figs.

Deployable solar panel array.

Dss specializes in the research design development analysis manufacture and test of innovative mission enabling deployable space systems. The cargo dragon s deployable solar arrays have been eliminated to reduce the number of. The exa dsa 1a titanium deployable solar array for 1u is the entry level product of a family of deployable solar arrays based on artificial muscles for cubesats in the range of 1u to 6u. Flexible blanket solar arrays rigid panel solar arrays concentrator arrays boom systems.

The 4 panels which start off stowed along the sides of the spacecraft during launch open up in orbit to reach a length of 7 metres. Unlike most spacecraft that deploy solar panels the solar arrays are built into the trunk itself. This spacecraft which is designed for journeys to the moon and to mars is equipped with 4 deployable solar panels which form an x shape and can produce about 10 kilowatts of power. Game changing deployable technologies.

A deployable solar array is formed of a number solar panels in a series. The arrays are composed by 5 panels 3 on top 2 on bottom that attached to the cubesat structure just as another solar panel and once in orbit deploys to full extension includes deploy and release contact sensors and custom options are available on requests like sun and temperature sensors 7 panel. N 2 1m of solar panels has 400w of sunlight on it but 15 of 400 is 60w so assume the 1m2 of solar panels produces 60w of power. First the solar array pack deploys from the cubesat body when the thermal cut tc1 is activated.

The deployment sequence develops in two steps as shown in fig. N assume the car engine is in the middle of the range given at 55bhp. N 55 x 746 41030 watts is the power of the engine. The deployable solar panel consists of three solar panels stacked on each other in the stowed configuration.

1 through 6 by the array 10 having a foldable solar panel assembly 12. N 41030 60 683 83m2. Lapointe has been a key technical team member of several successful flight programs including deployable open lattice masts rigid panel solar arrays flexible blanket solar arrays reflector dish deployment structures solar array blanket deployers and damped latching solar array hinge mechanisms.