Russia has developed ultra-light solar panel skeleton

A subsidiary of the Russian technology company Obninsk Scientific Research and Production Co., Ltd. has developed an ultra-lightweight solar panel skeleton for spacecraft. The use of a solar panel equipped with this skeleton will help extend the spacecraft’s spacecraft. operating hours.

Anatoly Khmelnitsky, deputy general manager of the company, said on the 12th that the new skeleton is made of carbon fiber composite material, weighs only 480 grams per square meter, while the European research satellite and space technology The same kind of ultra-lightweight skeleton that Strim company is developing, its design weight exceeds 1000 grams per square meter.

Khmelnitsky said that using this ultra-light skeleton solar panel will extend the spacecraft's working time in space. Russia's "Moon-Global" and "Moon-Resource" detectors will use this new skeleton. (Reporter He Yingjun)