NASA Tests High-Power Solar Arrays At Plum Brook

A 32-ft.-dia. deployable solar array wing that may one day feed power to advanced solar-electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters has passed three months of thermal-vacuum testing at NASA’s Plum Brook facility near Cleveland with good results. Under contract to NASA’s Glenn Research Center, ATK...

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