regenerative fuel cell, ground test, evaluation test, stratospheric platform, airship, research and development, feasibility study, electric power supply
その他のタイトル(英)
SPF airship regenerative fuel cell development plan and ground operation test status
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
IHI Aerospace Co. Ltd.
IHI Aerospace Co. Ltd.
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究本部
出版者(英)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ISAS)
雑誌名
第23回宇宙エネルギーシンポジウム 平成15年度
雑誌名(英)
The 23rd ISAS Space Energy Symposium March 9, 2004
ページ
84 - 88
発行年
2004-06
抄録(英)
The research and development program of unmanned solar-powered stratospheric platform (SPF) airship has been in progress in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) since April 1998. The SPF airship has an important role on provision of a new infrastructure for telecommunication services and scientific earth observations. For the airship development, a combined power technology of solar cells (SC) and regenerative fuel cells (RFC) is viewed one of key technical issues which will have to be solved on the research and development lead to the SPF realization in future. The design targets for solar power technology demonstration have been definitely specified through ground-based research tasks after the SPF feasibility study, and a ground test model of 1 KW output RFC has been evaluated to provide more detailed data in closed-circuit RFC operations. Additionally, the onboard type RFC model of 1 KW was designed and fabricated for performance tests. This RFC model is currently being tested, and the performance is evaluated to see the characteristics of the onboard type operation. Summarized herein are technical achievements available to date from the solar RFC research in JAXA supported by IHI Aerospace Co., Ltd. (IA), and the future works are also described.