Contents SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY 1-1. Photovoltaic Space Power History and Perspective/ E. L. Ralph 3 1-2. Large Solar Array Design/Gary F. Turner & Stephen C. Debrock 11 1-5. Gallium Arsenide Technologies in Photovoltaic Conversion/ P. A. Iles, Y. C. M. Yeh & F. Ho 23 1-8. Advances in Thin-Film Solar Cells for Lightweight Space Photovoltaic Power/Geoffrey A. Landis, Sheila G. Bailey & Dennis J. Flood 31 1-9. High Voltage Solar Array Interacting with Ionospheric Plasma/ H. Kuninaka, Y. Nozaki & K. Kuriki 51 NUCLEAR SPACE POWER SYSTEMS 2-7. Space Nuclear Power Systems for Extraterrestrial Basing/ J. R. Lange & J. W. H. Chi 69 ENERGY STORAGE 3-2. Space Power Thermal Energy Storage: Planned Experiments for Phase Change Material Tests in Microgravity/S. Weingartner, J. Blumenberg & F. Lindner 83 SOLAR DYNAMIC POWER FOR SPACE 4-1. Solar Dynamic Power for Space Station Freedom/ Thomas L. Labus, Richard R. Secunde & Ronald G. Lovely 97 NUCLEAR SPACE POWER TECHNOLOGIES 5-3. NERVA-Derivative Reactor Technology—A National Asset for Diverse Space Power Applications/J. F. Wett, J. W. H. Chi & J. M. Livingston 115 5-4. The Future of Closed Brayton Cycle Space Power Systems/ William B. Harper Jr., Anthony Pietsch & William G. Baggenstoss 125 5-7. Free-piston Stirling Technology for Space Power/ Jack B. Slaby 137 POWER CONVERSION, CONTROL AND CONDITIONING 6-5. Considerations of Power Conversion Techniques in Future Space Applications/Praveen Jain, J. Bottrill & M. Tanju 149 ADVANCED SOLAR SPACE POWER SYSTEMS 7-4. Central-station Electric Power for Spacecraft/Jerry Grey & Lucien Deschamps 179 (Continued on Inside Back Cover)
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