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Article: Spectrolab First to Offer Triple Junction Spacecraft Solar Cells.
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- January 11, 1999
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999--Spectrolab Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp., has successfully achieved a new record in solar cell efficiency with the completion of triple-junction solar cells.
These triple-junction cells can convert more of the sun's rays into spacecraft power than any other solar cell currently available. This latest innovation comes 14 months after Spectrolab's first successful flight of dual-junction solar cells on PanAmSat Corp.'s PAS-5, a Hughes-built HS 601 satellite.
Spectrolab's gallium arsenide triple-junction solar cells are the result of more than two years of development and mark another first in the ...