Tag: Batteries
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EnerSys ABSL Battery Launched Onboard NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
EnerSys, the global company in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, is proud to announce that its ABSL lithium-ion space battery was successfully launched onboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. The launch took place on October 14, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission was led by…
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NASA Awards $1.5 M to H.E.L.P.S. and Orbital Mining at Watts on the Moon Challenge
NASA has awarded a total of $1.5 million to two U.S. teams, Team H.E.L.P.S and Orbital Mining Corp., for their novel technology solutions addressing energy distribution, management, and storage as part of the agency’s Watts on the Moon Challenge. The innovations from this challenge aim to support NASA’s Artemis missions, which will establish long-term human…
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NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge Concludes with Final Innovations for Lunar Power Solutions
NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. “For astronauts to maintain…
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Receives Record-Breaking Solar Arrays for Mission to Jupiter’s Moon
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration receives massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Each measuring about 46½ feet (14.2 meters) long…
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Mitsubishi Electric to Supply Lithium-Ion Batteries for Gateway Lunar Orbital Platform
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to supply space-use lithium-ion batteries for the Gateway, a lunar orbiting space station. Under the “Joint Exploration Declaration of Intent for Lunar Cooperation (JEDI)” signed on July 10, 2020, by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science,…
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Thales Alenia Space Signs Contract with ESA for Development of ExoMars Mission Rover
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a framework contract divided into different tranches with the European Space Agency (ESA), worth a total of €522m, to continue essential activities for the completion of the ExoMars 2028 mission. The contract includes the development of the Mars Entry, Descent and…
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ESA’s Second European Remote Sensing Satellite Returns to Earth
ESA’s second European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite has reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean. The satellite returned at 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on 21 February 2024 between Alaska and Hawaii. ERS-2 was launched almost 30 years ago, on 21 April 1995. Together with ERS-1, it provided invaluable long-term data on Earth’s land surfaces,…
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NASA Space Tech Spinoffs Benefit Tools for Moon to Mars Missions and Earth Medicine
As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use here on Earth. Many of those examples are highlighted in NASA’s annual Spinoff book including dozens of NASA-enabled medical innovations, as well as other advancements. This year’s publication, NASA’s 2024…
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ISRO Successfully Flight Tests Fuel Cell in PSLV C58
ISRO has successfully tested a 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS) in its orbital platform, POEM3, launched onboard PSLV-C58 on January 1, 2024. The objective of the experiment was to assess Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel cell operation in space and to collect data to facilitate the design of systems…
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Viasat Unveils GX LITE Terminal for Ground and Airborne Applications
Viasat, Inc., a global company in satellite communications, announced the availability of the GX LITE terminal. Built with land expeditionary users’ requirements in mind, GX LITE readily translates to any “grab and go” situation and enables secure, flexible, high-throughput communications worldwide. GX LITE was developed with Viasat’s value-added manufacturer partner, Get SAT, an innovator in…