REFLECTIVE SOLAR
CONCENTRATORS
FOR CUBESATS

William Morris
Brian Lee Aqib Sadique

ADVISED BY PROFESSOR DAVID WOOTTON

CubeSats are small, modular satellites that are popular for commercial, scientific, and educational use due to their low cost and ease of manufacturing compared to traditional satellites. However, their power systems are still costly and limited in power generation capacity due to their small surface area. A power system utilizing a deployable reflective solar concentrator would mitigate these problems; a large reflector would increase the amount of sunlight collected, thereby increasing the power generation. Additionally, the concentrator would only require solar cells along the focus of each reflector, which would decrease costs compared to a traditional solar array of comparable size.

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