The SCARLET light concentrating solar array

Allen, Douglas; Jones, Phillip John; Murphy, David M.; Piszczor, Michael F.

doi:10.1109/pvsc.1996.564018

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“…Point-focus versions include the mini-dome lens flight test on PASP+ in 1994-95 [1]. Line-focus versions include the award-winning SCARLET array on Deep Space 1 in 1998-2001 [2]. The stretched lens array (SLA) built upon the success of SCARLET with a much lighter array, compatible with either a rigid-panel array architecture or a flexible-blanket array architecture [3].…”

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Recent space PV concentrator advances: More robust, lighter, and easier to track

O'Neill

McDanal²,

Brandhorst³

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)

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Over the past three years, the authors have collaborated on several significant advances in space photovoltaic concentrator technology, including a far more robust Fresnel lens for sunlight concentration, improved color-mixing features for the lens to minimize chromatic aberration losses for next-generation 4-junction and 6-junction IMM cells, a new approach to suntracking requiring only one axis of rotation even in the presence of large beta angles (e.g., ± 50°), a new waste heat radiator made of graphene, with 80-90% reduction in mass, and a new platform for deployment and support on orbit (SOLAROSA). These patent-pending advances are described in this paper.

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confidence: 99%

Recent space PV concentrator advances: More robust, lighter, and easier to track

O'Neill

McDanal²,

Brandhorst³

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)

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“…One fundamental goal of the New Millennium program is to accelerate the infusion of breakthrough technologies into spaceflight hardware (Chmielewski, 1996).…”

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SCARLET development, fabrication, and testing for the Deep Space 1 spacecraft

Murphy¹,

Allen²

IECEC-97 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (Cat. No.97CH6203)

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An advanced version of "Solar Concentrator Arrays with Refractive Linear Element Technology" (SCARLET) is being assembled for use on the first NASNJPL New Millennium spacecraft: Deep Space 1 (DS1). The array is scaled up from the first SCARLET array that was built for the METEOR satellite in 1995 and incorporates advanced technologies such as dualjunction solar cells and an improved structural design. Due to the failure of the Conestoga launch vehicle, this will be the first flight of a modular concentrator array. SCARLET will provide 2.6 kW to the DSl spacecraft to be launched in July 1998 for a mission that includes fly-bys of the asteroid McAuliffe, Mars, and the comet West-Kohoutek-Ikemura. This paper describes the SCARLET design, fabricatiodassembly, and testing program for the flight system.

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