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    cam) ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS © 1964 The Capitol Radio Engineering Institute E-196 FOREWORD ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS Many men in industrial and government laboratories are devoting their time and attention to the delicate problem of providing electrical energy for operation of equipment aboard space vehicles. Their work will never end because there is a never-ending need for better and larger sources of electrical energy to match the growing size and requirements of the payloads sent aloft. Conventions of these men in 1963 revealed estimates of future power requirements. The estimates extended the 0.01 kilowatt requirements of 1960 to 1000 kilowatts by about 1975. Undoubtedly, the low requirements of 1960, and even today, are not based upon real load requirements, but upon a compromise. The men who make the power available do their best within the assigned space and weight limitations; the men who develop the equipment for space experiments, guidance, and control, reduce their loads or limit their plans so that, in the end, the available power and load requirements match. Future sources of electrical energy—that is, the sources making kilowatts of energy available—will not use solar cells. These sources will be nuclear, chemical, or other types of energy conversion, Nevertheless, the solar cell will still be aboard— fulfilling a need for a long time to come. The solar-cell system with storage and control may be low in output compared to the future requirements, but it is simple and reliable. The study of this system is important now, and it will always remain an important part of the CREI curriculum. Henry I. Metz Vice President in Charge of Engineering - TABLE OF CONTENTS - ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS Page INTRODUCTION.--.. ©. ~

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