SPACECRAFT SOLAR BATTERIES MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER DETERMINATION METHOD Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B64G1/44 

FIELD: aviation.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the power supply of the spacecrafts (SC), using the solar batteries (SB). The method includes turning of the SB panel into the operating position, voltage (U) and current (I) measuring from the SB at the time, when the radiation from the Earth enters the non-working side of the SB panel, and the SB output power determination. At that the SC and SB are deployed until the minimum illumination of the SB working surface of the reflected solar radiation from the SC surface, when A < ε, where A is the angle between the normal vector to the SB working surface and the direction vector to the Sun; ε - the semiapex angle of the this working surface so-called sensitive area. Further the values of U, I and A are measured, determining the SB maximum output power as U. I/cos (A).

EFFECT: reduction of the radiation effect, reflected from the spacecraft surface to the solar battery measured output power.

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