
Technician Marshall MacCready carefully lays a panel of solar cells into place on a wing section of the Helios Prototype flying wing at AeroVironment's Design Development Center in Simi Valley, California. The bi-facial cells, manufactured by SunPower, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, are among 64,000 solar cells which have been installed on the solar-powered aircraft to provide electricity to its 14 motors and operating systems.
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NASA ID
EC00-0283-4
Date Created
September 18, 2000
Center
AFRC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Tom Tschida
Location
Simi Valley, CA, USA
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