Efficient and Reliable Solar Panels for Small CubeSat Picosatellites

CubeSat picosatellites have a limited area of walls for solar cells assembling and the available area has to be effectively shared with other parts, such as planar antennas, optical sensors, camera lens, and access port. With standard size of solar cell strings, it is not possible to construct a rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ivo Vertat, Ales Vobornik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Photoenergy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/537645