Saft develops lithium battery for launch vehicles
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Saft Batteries product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 22, 2009
Saft is working with its partners in Russia to develop and flight-test the world's first hybrid lithium battery system for a new generation of light-class launch vehicles in Russia and Europe.
This development is supported both by CNES (the French space agency) and Roscosmos (the Russian Federal Space Agency).
The project is being carried out within the framework of a dialogue between the European Union, ESA (the European Space Agency) and Roscosmos.
Saft's partners are FSUE RISDE (the Russian Institute of Space Defence Engineering) and Synertech (a Russian joint venture between FSUE RISDE, EADS Astrium and Tesat Spacecom).
The prototype hybrid battery will combine primary lithium cells and rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells in an integrated, fully autonomous power supply unit from Saft, complete with control systems from FSUE RISDE.
This approach will offer many operational advantages for the launcher and upper stage, including longer mission-life, increased capacity in a smaller footprint and greater current capability.
The prototype hybrid battery is based on a modular concept that combines two of Saft's space-proven cell technologies - primary lithium cells and rechargeable Li-ion cells - to deliver high electrical and thermal performance at temperatures from -20C to +70C.
This approach effectively offers the best of both worlds: the instant power capability of the Li-ion cells ensures voltage stability by eliminating the delay effect sometimes experienced with primary lithium cells; the Li-ion cells can deliver high peak pulse currents of up to 50A for several minutes.
A further advantage of the hybrid battery is that the primary cells provide a fully autonomous charging current for the Li-ion cells.
So for example, if the battery is discharged during launch vehicle-integration tests it can be recharged for the actual launch, with no need to connect an external charging supply.
The primary cells will make it possible to maintain the battery capacity for longer mission times.
They will also provide extended storage times of three months on the launcher and a minimum of one year on the ground.
The prototype Saft hybrid battery is expected to make its first space flight by the end of 2011.
It will be integrated in the Photon spacecraft manufactured by Samara Space Center as experimental equipment.
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