NASA's Photovoltaic Energy Research Plans and Programs
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission Objectives
Technical Objectives
Successfully deliver flight hardware to Astrobotic for integration onto the Peregrine Lander
Do not exceed mass, power, size restraints
Do no hard to the lander or other payloads
Increase the TRL of solar cells and measure charge accumulation on an array of solar cells
Science Objectives
NASA
Science objective 1: Determine performance and health checking of SOA and Next gen solar cells and terrestrial silicon cells over
a lunar day. Perform I-V and temperature measurements for each cell regularly throughout mission
The cells are not under load ("powered" or "powering anything") when not scanning an I-V curve
Science objective 2: Measure the localized charging environment on a small solar array by collection of charge deposited on solar
cell cover glass
Charging environment influenced by local neutral plasma.
Bonus: get data in transit to the moon
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