On Orbit Performance of IRS1A 40 Ah Nickel Cadmium Batteries
929328
8/3/1992
- Content
- The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS 1A was launched on March 17, 1988. The energy storage for this spacecraft was by two 40Ah nickel-cadmium batteries operating between 7% to 8% DOD. The performance of these batteries show marginal degradation over the 3 year mission life.
- Citation
- Satyanarayana, P., Suresh, M., Subrahmanyam, A., and Agrawal, B., "On Orbit Performance of IRS1A 40 Ah Nickel Cadmium Batteries," 27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992), San Diego, California, United States, August 3, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929328.