days (see Fig. 10). In the past, the mission planners have not taken advantage of this characteristics simply because the spacecraft designers have either failed to recognize it or did not plan to utilize it. Figs. 11 and 12 show the daytime vs. nighttime bus power relationship for several orbital average bus power levels for LEO and GEO spacecraft, respectively. These plots of the bus power relationships given by Eq. (4) show that the daytime capability increases much higher for the LEO as nighttime load is decreased. Thus, the benefits of DANMOE scheme would be greater for the LEO than the GEO application.
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