{"id":779,"date":"2023-03-20T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/?p=779"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:55:06","slug":"more-power-e-atz-dec-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/2023\/03\/20\/more-power-e-atz-dec-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"More Power! (E. Atz, Dec. 11, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two months, we have built and began testing the flight model solar panels for CuPID. If you remember, we posted about building the small, -X face solar panel in May, yet this panel was only able to fit 7 solar cells. Using the lessons learned from manufacturing the -X panel, we made the two main power producing panels for CuPID. Together, these two panels are enough to power the satellite with their total 33 solar cells! Below, Aleks and Emil lay a string of cells down onto the double sided Kapton tape adhered on the flight FR4 circuit boards.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-779-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/cupid\/files\/2018\/12\/Y_5cell_string.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/cupid\/files\/2018\/12\/Y_5cell_string.mp4\">\/cupid\/files\/2018\/12\/Y_5cell_string.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Solar panels are a <i>crucial<\/i> part of a satellite, so testing needs to be rigorous. We test our solar panels electrical power production under a simulated sun environment, as well as exposing the panels to deep vacuum and thermal cycles like they will experience in orbit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-794\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cupid\/files\/2018\/12\/SolarPanelProd-636x336.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-794\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Left:<\/strong> Aleks proudly holds the +Y solar panel we created. <strong>Right:<\/strong> Brian tests the power production of the -Y panel under the LED sun simulator we have in the lab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two months, we have built and began testing the flight model solar panels for CuPID. If you remember, we posted about building the small, -X face solar panel in May, yet this panel was only able to fit 7 solar cells. Using the lessons learned from manufacturing the -X panel, we made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}