A Solar Array Derated for Venus Surface Light Levels with Acid Protection: Area and Output Sizing

This study sizes a Solar Array Derated for Venus Surface Light Levels with Acid Protection for operation in the Venus surface environment and reports the result as SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. The design is developed from stated physical relations and a shared environmental basis, and every performance figure is computed by the deposited script rather than asserted. Among the computed results are solar flux at the surface of 105.0 watts per square metre, cell efficiency at operating temperature of -0.0797 as a fraction, effective efficiency after cover and soiling of -0.0652 as a fraction, power per square metre of -6.85 watts. Mass and power budgets are assembled from components so that they can be audited, off-design behaviour and materials uncertainty are discussed openly, and the limits of the sizing are stated in full. The system is a civilian science and construction design intended for a robotically serviced surface station.