The concept of an educational and scientific experiment for conducting on-orbit testing of any types of photovoltaic cell

The article proposes the concept of an experiment for conducting flight testing of various samples of photovoltaic converters. The purpose of the experiment is to study the behavior of new types of solar cells in outer space. The research will be carried out by testing samples on board the spacecraft. The experiment will be carried out by a device that collects data on the electrical properties of solar cells. The information received will be presented in the form of a voltage characteristic. During the experiment, its dependence on external parameters will also be studied. In particular, the correlation of the current-voltage characteristic from the values of temperature and illumination of solar cells will be investigated. Based on the data obtained, the efficiency of photovoltaic converters will be determined. Their degradation as a result of exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation will also be studied. The authors are tasked with designing and developing an experimental installation that will be a payload module of a small CubeSat-class spacecraft. Based on the results of the work, the appearance of the flight testing experiment was developed, the requirements for the payload module were determined and a project for its creation was proposed. At this stage, the circuit design and software implementation of the module itself are under development. In the course of the work, the main requirements that this module provides to the main systems of the spacecraft were also formulated. To carry out the mission of the experiment, it is planned to integrate the payload module on the platform of the ReshUCube-2 form factor 3U. This satellite will be equipped with equipment enabling technological experiments.