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Fig. 2. Architecture of CubeSat EPS Fig. 3. Source-fed load connection topology in CubeSat EPS
(a) (b)
Fig. 6. Schematic of one converter on source-side in source-fed topology
Fig. 9. (a) Experimental setup; (b) PCB of the satellite EPS.
VII. C ONCLUSION
V. T RANSIENT AND S TEADY- STATE S IMULATION
R ESULTS The developed circuit is a part of the AHAN mission,
the first small satellite mission of Indian Institute of Space
The designed EPS architecture is simulated in LTSPICE Science and Technology. Preliminary experimental results,
to validate the architecture with three charger circuits in details of the architecture, schematics and test setup have
parallel. The battery voltage, charge current output from been provided. The parallel operation of designed converters
one charger and total charge current output from the three is tested successfully in source-fed and battery-fed load
chargers in parallel are shown in Fig. 8. connection topologies.
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