Product category: Batteries and Chargers
News Release from: Saft Space and Defence Batteries | Subject: VES 100 Li-ion cells
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 December 2006
Li-ion batteries keep satellite on track
The Corot mini-LEO satellite is powered by Saft rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries as it searches nearby stars for rocky earth-like planets.
CNES's Corot mini-LEO (low earth orbit) satellite, launched successfully this week by a Soyuz 2-1b launcher from the Baikonour Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), will be powered by Saft rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries as it searches nearby stars for rocky earth-like planets This is an extremely demanding application for the onboard batteries, as they will be charged and discharged over a constantly repeating 100 minute cycle, with no rest periods, throughout a mission planned to last at least two-and-a-half years
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)