Safety Evaluation of Two Commercial Lithium-ion Batteries for Space Applications

摘要

Lithium-ion batteries have been used for applications on the Shuttle and Station for the past six years. A majority of the li-ion batteries flown are Commercial-off-the-Shelf varieties. The batteries and the cells were tested under nominal and abusive conditions for performance and safety characterization. Within the past six months two batteries were certified for flight and use on the Space Station. The first one was a Hand Spring PDA battery that had a single prismatic li-ion cell and the second was an Iridium satellite phone that had a two-cell pack with prismatic li-ion cells.