Towards Supercapacitors in Space Applications

Brandon Buergler, Bertrand Faure, David Latif, Lukas Diblik, Petr Vasina, Valéry Gineste, Marek Simcak, A. Fernandez
2017 E3S Web of Conferences  
Supercapacitors offer a wide range of applications for space flight. The aim of this activity was to pursue life tests on commercial off the shelf (COTS) supercapacitors from different manufacturers, to evaluate their performance after long term vacuum exposure and to investigate balancing designs for the use of these cells in banks of supercapacitors (BOSC). This study enabled to select the most suitable part for space applications and to confirm the design rules at unit level and deratings at
more » ... component level, which need to be applied. All those complementary results have paved the way to the on-going activities related to Nesscap 10F qualification and associated modular Bank Of Supercapacitors development for space applications.
doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20171617003 fatcat:yk53rzmpffcmzbm4jqbbblk5ty