Battery Basics
Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries Were Different
Nickel-hydrogen batteries were different to many other rechargeable batteries. That’s because they used hydrogen gas as an active…
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How Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries Evolved
The development of the nickel-hydrogen battery began around 1970 at COMSAT Laboratories in the United…
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Better Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries for Spacecraft
By the 1960s, satellites had become essential for communications, navigation and scientific research. But engineers…
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International Space Station Batteries Return
What goes up must come down because of the law gravity, as our teachers told…
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Dramatic Spacewalk to Change ISS Batteries
The world became blasé about space exploration until the miracle rescue of the Apollo 13…
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Space Station Replacement Batteries: Update
We recently wrote about the delay in replacing the international space station batteries. NASA has…
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International Space Station Batteries Delayed
The international space station depends on solar panels and nickel hydrogen batteries to maintain its…