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What is the capacity of the electrical system on the ISS? LorenzoB ( talk) 16:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to propose that Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System be merged into this article - it's a fairly short article, with the relevant section here consisting of only a few lines (and so needing improving) - I think that the SSPTS is a fairly narrow topic for an article, and would be better suited in this larger article. Colds7ream ( talk) 19:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Having heard no dissenting voices, I've executed the merge. Colds7ream ( talk) 11:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Why did the engineering and designer of the International Space Station elect to use Direct Current (DC) rather than Alternating Current (AC) systems?
T. Bert Rose —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.9.40.176 ( talk) 14:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if the mass of the US ISS power system can be put into this article? I am thinking of it as a good reference benchmark for satellite solar power PV arrays, and also for ion drive systems. To be most useful, it would be good to have the array mass, power, and area, and the power conversion system mass, broken out separately. There may be a better WP article giving this kind of information on the current state-of-the-art for space PV power systems; anybody know of it? Perhaps we should make one, if one does not exist. Thanks, anyhow. Wwheaton ( talk) 22:54, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
the article speaks only of the United states orbital segment's power supply. Zip about the rest. Penyulap talk 12:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
The International Space Station's main source of energy is from three of the four large U.S.-made photovoltaic arrays currently on the station, sometimes referred to as the Solar Array Wings (SAW). The first pair of arrays are attached to the P6 truss segment, which was launched and installed on top of Z1 in late 2000 during STS-97.
Given that the available power varies from 100 kW (in sun, and charging batteries) to 20 kW (running on batteries), how do the utility loads and experiments vary their consumption to best use the peak power when in sunlight ? - Rod57 ( talk) 13:14, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
International Space Station says "The station's large solar panels generate a high potential voltage difference between the station and the ionosphere. This could cause arcing through insulating surfaces and sputtering of conductive surfaces as ions are accelerated by the spacecraft plasma sheath. To mitigate this, plasma contactor units (PCU)s create current paths between the station and the ambient plasma field.[197]" (with a ref that doesn't seem to work)
but this issue is not mentioned at all here. -
Rod57 (
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Okay, new NiH2 batteries were brought to the ISS to replace old ones. And what happened to the old ones? Went over the rainbow bridge? No second life, not enough space? Jettisoned into the Spacecraft cemetery? Space toilet? Waste management of the International Space Station? Matthead Discuß 15:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
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What is the capacity of the electrical system on the ISS? LorenzoB ( talk) 16:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to propose that Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System be merged into this article - it's a fairly short article, with the relevant section here consisting of only a few lines (and so needing improving) - I think that the SSPTS is a fairly narrow topic for an article, and would be better suited in this larger article. Colds7ream ( talk) 19:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Having heard no dissenting voices, I've executed the merge. Colds7ream ( talk) 11:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Why did the engineering and designer of the International Space Station elect to use Direct Current (DC) rather than Alternating Current (AC) systems?
T. Bert Rose —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.9.40.176 ( talk) 14:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if the mass of the US ISS power system can be put into this article? I am thinking of it as a good reference benchmark for satellite solar power PV arrays, and also for ion drive systems. To be most useful, it would be good to have the array mass, power, and area, and the power conversion system mass, broken out separately. There may be a better WP article giving this kind of information on the current state-of-the-art for space PV power systems; anybody know of it? Perhaps we should make one, if one does not exist. Thanks, anyhow. Wwheaton ( talk) 22:54, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
the article speaks only of the United states orbital segment's power supply. Zip about the rest. Penyulap talk 12:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
The International Space Station's main source of energy is from three of the four large U.S.-made photovoltaic arrays currently on the station, sometimes referred to as the Solar Array Wings (SAW). The first pair of arrays are attached to the P6 truss segment, which was launched and installed on top of Z1 in late 2000 during STS-97.
Given that the available power varies from 100 kW (in sun, and charging batteries) to 20 kW (running on batteries), how do the utility loads and experiments vary their consumption to best use the peak power when in sunlight ? - Rod57 ( talk) 13:14, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
International Space Station says "The station's large solar panels generate a high potential voltage difference between the station and the ionosphere. This could cause arcing through insulating surfaces and sputtering of conductive surfaces as ions are accelerated by the spacecraft plasma sheath. To mitigate this, plasma contactor units (PCU)s create current paths between the station and the ambient plasma field.[197]" (with a ref that doesn't seem to work)
but this issue is not mentioned at all here. -
Rod57 (
talk) 10:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Okay, new NiH2 batteries were brought to the ISS to replace old ones. And what happened to the old ones? Went over the rainbow bridge? No second life, not enough space? Jettisoned into the Spacecraft cemetery? Space toilet? Waste management of the International Space Station? Matthead Discuß 15:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)