Product category: Batteries and Chargers
News Release from: ABSL Power Solutions | Subject: Lithium-ion batteries
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 March 2006
Lithium-ion batteries save weight on
space mission
NASA's Space Technology 5 project is using ABSL's low weight lithium-ion batteries in preference to current NiCd and NiH2 aerospace batteries.
ABSL Space Products (formerly AEA Technology Space) notched up another first in space science and technology last week when NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre's (GSFC) Pegasus XL rocket lifted off successfully on the maiden voyage of its Space Technology 5 (ST5) project, which will employ ABSL's low weight lithium-ion batteries in preference to current NiCd and NiH2 aerospace batteries 19 spacecraft have now been successfully powered by ABSL lithium-ion batteries
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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