Tag: Solar Panels
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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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Maxar Selects Sierra Space to Provide Solar Power Solutions for Proliferated LEO Satellites
Sierra Space, a space company building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth, announced that the company has won a significant space defense contract with Maxar. Under the agreement, Sierra Space will provide revolutionary solar power solutions and production capability. This contract will support a constellation of 16 satellites…
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Keysight Introduces New MP4300A Series Modular Solar Array Simulator for Satellite Power Systems
Keysight Technologies, one of the leading technology companies that deliver advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the new MP4300A Series Modular Solar Array Simulator (SAS) to emulate the behavior of photovoltaic (PV) segments. The SAS solution simulates all conditions a craft or satellite will encounter…
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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)…
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NASA Selects Three Companies to Develop Solar Array Technology for Moon Exploration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency’s human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis. Through Artemis missions, NASA will return humans to the Moon and establish a long-term presence near the lunar South Pole.…
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SpaceX provides a ride to the space station for ‘kidney on a chip’ and new solar arrays
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, carrying supplies and science experiments into space. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station today with more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and science, including an experiment from the University of Washington that takes advantage of zero gravity to study how our…