{"id":63,"date":"2016-08-30T18:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-08-30T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:36:04","slug":"first-solar-panel-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"First Solar Panel Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The STF-1 team made the decision early on to leverage the efforts of another Goddard CubeSat mission, Dellingr, in components used.\u00a0 This included custom designed solar panels created in house.\u00a0 Interns at GSFC spent a summer perfecting the process of designing and building these solar panels.\u00a0 This includes printed circuit board (PCB) design, construction materials and process, as well as how to test a panel is fully functional and ready for flight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_144712-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160824_144712\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_144712-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_144712-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_144712-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_144712-1200x679.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The picture above shows STF-1\u2019s technical lead, Matthew Grubb, preparing to solder the silver connector onto the solar cell to allow for a connection to the PCB.\u00a0 STF-1 will have up to seven of these cells connected in a row attached to the board only by the four solder pads and a special type of tape underneath each cell.\u00a0 Below you can see the completed solar panel and these connections.\u00a0 The temperature sensor (empty pad in the picture) will be added and tested before flight as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_155537-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160824_155537\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_155537-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_155537-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_155537-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_20160824_155537-1200x679.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STF-1 team made the decision early on to leverage the efforts of another Goddard CubeSat mission, Dellingr, in components used.\u00a0 This included custom designed solar panels created in house.\u00a0 Interns at GSFC spent a summer perfecting the process of designing and building these solar panels.\u00a0 This includes printed circuit board (PCB) design, construction materials &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Solar Panel Built&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}