Battery energy / endurance

Ideal stored energy E = C·V·3600 and endurance at one terminal voltage and a constant load.

SIDUS educational calculator. Category utilities. Tags: operations, power, satellite, utilities. Pure SI. Not flight software.

Formula

E = C·V · t = E/P

Battery energy and endurance

Primary sources

• SmallSat power subsystems (NASA SmallSat Institute): Solar-array inverse-square irradiance and cosine projection, and spacecraft power-subsystem context for end-of-life array estimates.
• Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD (Wertz, Everett, Puschell (eds.)): Mission engineering handbook: RF links, constellations, and ops framing.

How do AI agents use this tool?

Read /llms.txt or call https://sidus.tools/api/mcp. Open the interactive page for live SI inputs.