Dear AMSATs,
I have a question concerning CubeSats structures. I am looking for a way to have a total space of a 1U (10cm x 10cm x 10cm) CubeSat, of which 0.5U (10cm x 10cm x 5cm) is used for electronics and battery and the other 0.5U will be used for light weight deployable solar panels.
Has this been done before ? Any ideas ?
73 de William Leijenaar PE1RAH
Hello William,
... light weight deployable solar panels
There is work on university cubesats in progress on light weight deployable solar panels. It is being discussed at the Cubesat Workshop this week ...
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/CubeSatWorkshop/v3
... and scroll down to the selection for "Implementation of Deployable Solar Panels on a 1U CubeSat" by Abhishek Bajpayee at the University of Louisiana.
NextGen CubeSat Program (a partnership with AMSAT, IBM, and Binghamton University engineering students) has said one of their goals would be deployable solar cells. Likely more update on this project at the AMSAT Forum in Dayton.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
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