Space Technology

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Hardcover | 26 January 2000

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Spacecraft Power Technologies is the first comprehensive text devoted to the technologies critical to the development of spacecraft electrical power systems. The science and engineering of solar, chemical, and nuclear systems are fully examined together with the constraints imposed by the space and thermal environments in which the systems must operate. Details of present technology and the history that led to the current state-of-the-art are presented at a level appropriate for the student as a textbook or the practicing engineer as a reference.

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"While there are numerous books and other literature on spacecraft electrical power systems, there are no comprehensive single references describing the enabling technologies used in spacecraft power systems. This book fills that need ... it provides the basics for understanding, which lends itself as a good textbook in a specialty power engineering course." IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The beginnings	p. 1
The electrical power system	p. 7
Environmental Factors	p. 23
Orbital considerations	p. 25
The near-Earth space environment	p. 33
Solar Energy Conversion	p. 71
Solar cell fundamentals	p. 75
Solar cell calibration and performance measurements	p. 80
Silicon space solar cells	p. 88
III-V compound semiconductor solar cells	p. 95
Thin film solar cells	p. 117
Space solar cell arrays	p. 119
Space thermophotovoltaic power systems	p. 140
Chemical Storage and Generation Systems	p. 157
Inventions	p. 158
Evolution of batteries in space	p. 159
Fundamentals of electrochemistry	p. 163
Cell and battery mechanical design	p. 166
Performance metrics	p. 171
Electrochemical cell types	p. 185
Fuel cell systems	p. 223
Definitions and terminology	p. 235
Nuclear Systems	p. 241
History of the U.S. space nuclear program	p. 242
History of the Russian space nuclear program	p. 255
Radioisotope systems	p. 258
Reactors	p. 264
Safety	p. 273
Static Energy Conversion	p. 287
Thermoelectrics	p. 288
Thermionics	p. 294
AMTEC	p. 307
Thermophotovoltaics	p. 311
Dynamic Energy Conversion	p. 323
Stirling cycle	p. 324
Closed Brayton cycle	p. 332
Rankine cycle	p. 340
Power Management and Distribution	p. 353
Functions of PMAD	p. 363
Components and packaging	p. 397
System examples	p. 404
Thermal Management	p. 415
The thermal environment	p. 421
Heat transfer mechanisms	p. 429
The basics of thermal analysis	p. 435
Thermal management techniques	p. 437
Magnetic Materials	p. 453
Index	p. 467
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