Scientists mark a successful launch of perovskite PV into space
Together with his collaborators at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Technical University of Berlin, Dr. Felix Lang from the University of Potsdam previously launched perovskite tandem solar cells into space to test their performance with extreme radiation levels and temperature cycles. Recently, he successfully received the first data from his experiment.
July 9, 2024 was the day of the maiden launch of the new Ariane 6 rocket from Guiana Space Centre by ESA. On-board a satellite was a special solar cell experiment. The satellite itself was successfully released one hour and six minutes after launch. “The solar cells have survived launch and started to produce energy, even without perfect alignment to the sun,” says Felix Lang, who celebrates this first success with his junior research group at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher, funded by a Freigeist-Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation.