Aerospace Programs

To date, Electro Energy’s Super NiCd batteries have been used for over 35 successful space missions, including:

LEASAT: 96 Cells/21 Ah
PALAPA B4: 64 Cells/20 Ah
NEAR: 22 Cells/9 Ah
TRMM: 44 Cells/50 Ah
LUNAR PROSPECTOR: 22 Cells/5 Ah
ROCSAT: 22 Cells/21 Ah
SPACE STATION: 84 Cells/4.8 Ah
CONTOUR: 22 Cells/9 Ah 
GRAVITY PROBE B: 44 Cells/35 Ah 
KOMPSAT 2: 22 Cells/37 Ah

Program Highlights:

CONTOUR - Comet Nucleus Tour

• Spacecraft Power System Battery
• 9 Ah Super NiCd, 22 Cell Battery
• NASA Discovery Mission
• Launch--July 1, 2002
• Close Fly-bys of 3 Comet Nuclei

            - Imaging
            - Spectral mapping 
            - Analyze nucleus gas and dust

Gravity Probe B

• Spacecraft Power System Batteries
• Two 35 Ah Super NiCd, 22 Cell Batteries
• 400-mile Altitude Polar Orbit
• An experiment to test two of Albert Einstein’s predictions of general relativity:

            - Space-time warp 
            - Space-time drag

IMAGE - Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration

• Spacecraft Power System Battery
• 21 Ah Super NiCd, 22 Cell Battery
• Launched--March 25, 2002
• Elliptical Polar Orbit
• Tracks the motion of the transparent, electrified gas trapped inside the Earth’s magnetic field.
• View Magnetosphere & Magnetic Storms