SRC-563

Electrostatic Protection of the Solar Power Satellite and Rectenna, Part I: Protection of the Solar Power Satellite -- NASA CR-3344; Contract NAS8-33023; 1980

Commissioned by Marshall Space Flight Center, Contract NAS8-33023. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-1106 The satellite's dark side charges to thousands of volts in the geostationary plasma, and the plastic backing of the solar cells would hold a few thousand volts across itself, within a factor of two of breaking down; the study's fix was a more conductive backing or a bleed path.

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