Tag: Solar Cells
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ESA’s VIPER Experiment Takes Off with Double T-Rex Rocket Launch for Advanced Space Research
Not one, but two rocket launches with ESA-led experiments are flying to the edge of space just a week apart, providing unique data to researchers eager to learn more about fundamental physics, semiconductor production, the formation of planets and how our immune cells react to spaceflight. A Texus sounding rocket can propel up to 270…
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Momentus’ Vigoride-6 Spacecraft Arrives at SpaceX Launch Site for Its Launch
Momentus announced that its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month. The Momentus team completed final flight preparations, and the Vigoride-6 OSV is integrated with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The priorities of this mission…
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Boeing’s Spectrolab to Power Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
As the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission begins its survey of the Earth’s surface, the satellite will get power from solar cells built by Spectrolab, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing. The SWOT satellite, targeted to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, will conduct the first global survey of water on the…
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mPower Technology Selected by Gravitics as Solar Module Supplier for StarMax Space Station Module
Innovative solar technology company, mPower Technology announced that its DragonSCALESTM solar power system will be used as the solar power solution for the Gravitics StarMaxTM space station modules. Gravitics is leading the way in a new era of human presence in space with the introduction of StarMax – a flexible-use space station module that provides…
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Northrop Grumman Successfully Demonstrates Transmission of Directed RF Energy for Space Solar Power
In the 1940s, science fiction author Isaac Asimov theorized the concept of collecting the sun’s energy in space, then beaming that energy down to Earth. Today, Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project team is making that science fiction a reality with steady progress towards transmitting solar energy from space to anywhere on Earth.…
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NASA Astronauts Successfully Complete Spacewalk to Install Third iROSA Solar Array on the ISS
NASA Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio successfully completed a 7–hour 5-minute spacewalk to install the third ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSA) on the Starboard 4 Truss of the International Space Station (ISS). This spacewalk, the 82nd U.S. spacewalk, achieved all objectives by successfully installing and deploying the third array to the space station. The pair had…
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Sidus Space Partners with GTM Advanced Structures to Integrate Solar Panels into Satellite
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, announced their partnership GTM Advanced Structures (“GTM”) to integrate their space-proven solar panels into LizzieSat™ Sidus Space is in advanced stages of developing LizzieSat, a proprietary partially 3-D printed satellite, expected to launch in…
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Rocket Lab Ships Final Solar Panels for NASA’s Gateway Power and Propulsion Element
Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, has delivered the final solar panels to Maxar that will fly on the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for NASA’s Gateway lunar space station. SolAero Technologies, a leading space solar power provider acquired by Rocket Lab, was awarded the contract in 2019 from…
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NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Build Solar Panels for its CADRE Mobile Robot Program
Rocket Lab, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, announced it has been selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to supply solar panels that will power NASA’s shoe-box-sized mobile robots as part of the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers (CADRE) program. The solar panels will use Rocket Lab’s inverted metamorphic multi-junction (IMM)…