NASA's Photovoltaic Energy Research Plans and Programs
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Flight Test - EESP on DART
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission: Launched November 24th, 2021
Opportunity existed for test of the APL Transformational Array cell and concentrator technology in similar flight
configuration for near Earth mission
The TA array technology will be placed on the portion of the array that provides power to the spacecraft
The current from the TA strings and service strings will be measured using existing circuitry in the power system
Data will be collected over the year long cruise to Didymos (Impacted on September 26, 2022)
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Qty=1 TFA SPM is on
each wing/each
IMBA blanket
assembly
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Qty 1 TFA SPM sized
to fit within the space
of Qty 2 standard
DART Spacecraft
Segment SPM's
Wing #1 IMBA
blanket assembly
TFA SPM
location
Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment \\AIDA
NASA
DART
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Schematic of the DART mission shows the impact on the moonlet of asteroid (65803) DidymosView entire presentation