Tag: Solar Cells
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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)…