session 3

Title

Advanced Space Power Technologies and Concepts

type

oral

Description

This session covers all type of advanced space power technologies and concepts. These include technologies and concepts related to power generation (solar, nuclear, other) and harvesting, power conditioning, management and distribution, and energy storage. This session focuses on the power systems in the hundreds of watts and above, including large power systems for telecom spacecraft and novel power architectures for planetary, asteroid and lunar exploration scenarios up to MW size (nuclear reactor) systems.

Date

2012-10-02

Time

15:15

Room

TS17 (Sala Corsica, Palacongressi)

IPC members

• Chairman: Prof. Susumu Sasaki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), ISAS, Japan;

• Chairman: Ms. Carla Signorini, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands (Kingdom of the);

• Rapporteur: Dr. George Schmidt, NASA Glenn Research Center, United States;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Leopold Summerer, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands (Kingdom of the);