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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by politician on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:56AM (#34792197)
They control for a lot of factors except, apparently, for gravity. It would be awesome if they scaled their foundry down to the size of a satellite and tested it in orbit.
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by borjah on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:58AM (#34792235)
actually is 1/6th gravity, because you are going to produce it on the moon. I don't know how long the process is but maybe a vomit comet with a different parabola profile to imitate the moon gravity could do the trick.
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by politician on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:29PM (#34794657)
Yeah, I was thinking that they could launch into a microgravity environment and approximate the Moon's gravity by spinning the sat.
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by borjah on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:09PM (#34797565)
That would be also a good idea, albeit you need to automate the whole process...
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