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公开(公告)号：US20240059431A1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-22
申请号：US18501264
申请日：2023-11-03
申请人： Maxar Space LLC
发明人： Harry A. Yates , Tom Hsieh , Ryan Bieniek , Ben Kwong , Robert Szombathy , Martinus Meerman , Frederick Oey , Peter Amnuaypayoat , Alan J. Szeto , Richard B. Warnock
摘要： A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.
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公开(公告)号：US20230115933A1
公开(公告)日：2023-04-13
申请号：US17948011
申请日：2022-09-19
申请人： Maxar Space LLC
发明人： Harry A. Yates , Tom Hsieh , Ryan Bieniek , Ben Kwong , Robert Szombathy , Martinus Meerman , Frederick Oey , Peter Amnuaypayoat , Alan J. Szeto , Richard B. Warnock
摘要： A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.
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公开(公告)号：US20240351711A1
公开(公告)日：2024-10-24
申请号：US18304249
申请日：2023-04-20
申请人： Maxar Space LLC
发明人： Harry A. Yates , Ryan Bieniek , Alan J. Szeto , Kate Psyk , Jonathan Briend
摘要： An example of an apparatus includes a spacecraft body and a solar array that is attached to the spacecraft body. In addition, a solar array spring element is configured to provide a force between the solar array and one or more components of a neighboring spacecraft in a stack of spacecraft.
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公开(公告)号：US11845571B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-19
申请号：US17948011
申请日：2022-09-19
申请人： Maxar Space LLC
发明人： Harry A. Yates , Tom Hsieh , Ryan Bieniek , Ben Kwong , Robert Szombathy , Martinus Meerman , Frederick Oey , Peter Amnuaypayoat , Alan J. Szeto , Richard B. Warnock
摘要： A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and manufactured in reduced time and with reduced cost. The embodiments for the solar array are formed of multiple copies of a “bay” of a multiple strings of solar array cells mounted on semi-rigid face-sheet structural elements. The bays are then placed into frame structures made of tubes connected by nodes to provide an easily scalable, configurable, and producible solar array wing structure. This allows for rapid turnaround of program specific designs and proposal iterations that is quickly adaptable to new/future PhotoVoltaic (PV) technologies and that can create uniquely shaped (i.e., not rectangular) arrays, allowing for mass production with simple mass producible building blocks.
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