As space exploration advances, energy systems derived from Lunar and Martian resources become ever-more important. Additively manufactured electrochemical devices and thermal wadis from regolith may be a central part of future space energy storage systems.
Energy storage systems for space applications have been critically reviewed and comprehensively assessed. Batteries, regenerative fuel cells, flywheels, capacitors, and thermal systems have been evaluated in the context of a space application framework.
Additively manufactured electrochemical devices and thermal wadis from regolith may be a central part of future space energy storage systems. As with many of the key technologies vital to present-day life, these developments for space application may reveal terrestrial utility.
Space station energy storage systems engineering requirements can vary widely, given the lack of both Earth and Gateway stations. Regardless of the limited proving ground, there is a key commonality that indirectly drives the energy storage system design: human presence. This requires enhanced safety metrics and measures.
Compared to their terrestrial counterparts, space energy storage systems must be able to withstand severe radiation, extreme cycling, intensive temperature fluctuations, and vacuum pressures; all within incredibly stringent specific energy and energy density parameters.
These systems are designed with undersized energy storage system capacities due to the prohibitive mass of a fully redundant system [, ]. With a 50 kW-class solar array and electric propulsion system, even an undersized system represents capacity in the highest ranges of space heritage [43, 210].
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