Concentrator Flight Test Experiment

Abstract

The goal of this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort was to take the conceptual design begun under the Phase I SBIR flight test planning effort and accomplish the preliminary design of a subscale inflatable solar collector system. The preliminary design was then to be experimentally verified and a detail design generated. The inflatable portion of the collector was to be an adaptation of the inflatable collector produced on the Deployable Solar Collector Experiment. The entire collector system was to be designed to be packaged into a Get Away Special Canister launched from the space shuttle. No experimentation was done in this effort. This final report covers the preliminary design and the analysis supporting that design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA237390

Entities

People

  • B. Mcdaniel
  • C. Thompsen
  • E. Zaccardelli
  • G. Friese
  • S. Dalbey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Energy
  • Generators
  • Internal Pressure
  • Packaging
  • Power Supplies
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Pulse Generators
  • Rockets
  • Solar Propulsion
  • Strain Gages
  • Thermal Propulsion Systems
  • Transducers
  • Video Cameras

Readers

  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.
  • Software Engineering
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Satellites