Question:
why does the solar cells of communication satellite gets short circutted and not open circutted when they become faulty
Answer:
Short circuiting can occur at cell interconnections. This is a common failure mode for thin film cells since top and rear contacts are close together and risk being shorted together by pin-holes or regions of damaged cell material.
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