High Altitude Flight Results using Selenium, A PV Measurement Ecosystem

Abstract

We demonstrate the reproducibility and variability of 8 high altitude, near space solar cell characterization flights using the Selenium Ecosystem to be equal to prior JPL solar cell calibration flights. The Selenium Ecosystem consists of hardware and software that can measure and process high altitude solar cell characterization data. The modular nature of Selenium enables it to piggyback on larger balloon platforms as a secondary payload and light enough to be flown as primary payload on small weather balloons (< 2kg). The Selenium software is free to download.