Re:Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission
by jacquesm on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:47PM
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Indeed. As for the available solar power insolence is about 1000 W / square meter at solar noon with panels aimed at the sun, depending on tracking you either have zero, one or two axis that are going to be 'off' and then there is panel efficiency to account for, so in practice a 100 square meter area of panels will provide out of the 50 KW available only about 17 KW peak, and usually less than that.
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