Talk:Solar panels on spacecraft

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[edit] Cleanup and POV

Seeing as I'm too busy improving the parent article, I really don't have the time to fix up this article. First off, the information is unorganized. What'd be great is if it can be organized into sections. Another problem is the bias in the article: it's making out solar power + things in space to be the best thing since Wikipedia. This could be balanced out with disadvantages/the bad part of using solar power in space, or official criticisms could be added. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 22:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I cleaned up the page a little bit. I reorganized the paragraphs separated them into coherent sections. I tried to remove some of the NPOV, but there still might be some left. Can someone check it for me? -Steve 14:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confused with propulsion

This page needs to be be heavily edited. It contains a lot of irrelevant material about solar electric propulsion and hall thrusters which belong over in the propulsion pages. This page actually contains very little data about the ostensible topic, which is use of solar panels (solar arrays actually) for electric power.Charles!

Agreed. Also, it's odd that SMART-1 is the only example of electric propulsion currently cited. If I were to cite a single example, it would something like stationkeeping on geosynchronous satellites or Deep Space 1. Better would be a pointer to an article on solar-electric (or just electric) propulsion.24.6.86.200 (talk) 06:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)