SRC-493

Solar Power Satellite System Definition Study, Volume IV, Phase I Final Report, Silicon Solar Cell Annealing Test -- D180-25037-4; NASA CR-160373 not confirmed on pp.1-4; April 1979 (renders as "April ..,9")

Boeing Aerospace Company (prepared by Frank Walker) ·1979 · T3 government or agency report · VC01 VC02

Commissioned by NASA Johnson Space Center, Contract NAS9-15636 (renders as "NAS,-15636"). Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

D180-25037-4; NASA CR-160373 per filename, not independently legible on pp.1-4; no NTRS N-number printed the identifier this document is registered under

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CLM-1119 Two years on, a laser could put back about half the radiation damage in a paper-thin cell in a few seconds, and an oven could put back nearly all of it in twenty minutes; but nobody could yet put a glass cover on such a cell that survived the heat, so the thing the satellite would actually carry had not been annealed.

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