Batteries in Space: Preventing Catastrophic Failures and Validating Safe Designs Podcast

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Dr. Judith Jeevarajan of NASA Johnson Space Center speaks to CHI on October 13, 2014. Dr. Jeevarajan will be a speaker during the Knowledge Foundation’s Battery Safety conference, November 13-14 in Washington, DC.

Topics include: battery testing at NASA to determine failure modes and improve designs for safe use in space, unique challenges and conditions in the deep space vacuum, cell-to-cell thermal runaway propagation and more.

Keywords:

• batteries in outer space
• NASA battery testing
• lithium ion safety
• battery cell failure
• thermal runaway propagation
• battery design failure
• battery hazards in space
• cell abuse test
• battery failure modes
• NASA battery research
• NASA Johnson Space Center
• safe battery designs
• catastrophic failures
• batteries in deep space vacuum
• batteries ambient pressure
• battery off-nominal conditions
• batteries in microgravity
• battery abusive conditions
• external shorts
• battery overcharge
• human-rated space environment
• li-ion battery
• electrochemistry
• thermodynamic electrochemical studies