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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Algeria and the United Kingdom test deployable structures, cameras and solar cells
Follow ALSAT-1N from platform commissioning to experiment design, camera-data choices and the lessons of long-duration solar-cell measurements.
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The AlSat-1N flight model in the laboratory, with the experimental thin-film solar-cell external board identified by the authors’ red annotation. Figure 10 in Underwood and colleagues’ 2023 flight-results paper. This preflight photograph does not show the spacecraft operating in orbit.
Craig Underwood, Dan Lamb, Stuart Irvine, Simran Mardhani and Abdelmadjid Lassakeur (2023), Figure 10 · Image source · CC BY 4.0Your place in the bigger picture
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From an orbiting instrument to a useful service
From a charge to a spacecraft power system
Alsat Nano: a small laboratory in orbit
Algeria and the United Kingdom test deployable structures, cameras and solar cells
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