{"id":55225,"date":"2022-06-10T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-to-build-solar-array-for-nasa-glide-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T22:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:47:45","slug":"rocket-lab-to-build-solar-array-for-nasa-glide-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-to-build-solar-array-for-nasa-glide-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to Build Solar Array for NASA GLIDE Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Ball Aerospace<\/b> awarded <b>Rocket Lab<\/b> a subcontract to manufacture the solar array panel for <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019S GLIDE heliophysics mission. Ball Aerospace is building the spacecraft for NASA based on its Ball Configurable Platform.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will use solar array panel from Rocket Lab company SolAero. The panel uses high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, quadruple-junction Z4J solar cells, laid down on carbon composite facesheet panels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRocket Lab has become the \u2018go-to\u2019 provider of space solar power and space systems products throughout the space industry, including for ambitious heliophysics missions like GLIDE,\u201d said Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck. \u201cI am grateful to our partners at Ball Aerospace for selecting Rocket Lab and excited to be working with them to support NASA\u2019s Heliophysics missions to deliver advanced science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GLIDE \u2014 Global Lyman-Alpha Imager of Dynamic Exosphere\u2014 is a heliophysics mission that will study variability in Earth\u2019s atmosphere. It will launch alongside National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s (NOAA\u2019s) SWFO-L1 is a heliophysics mission in 2025. Rocket Lab is also providing the power for SWFO-L1.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab announced the award on June 9. Financial terms were not disclosed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Aerospace awarded Rocket Lab a subcontract to manufacture the solar array panel for NASA\u2019S GLIDE heliophysics mission. Ball Aerospace is building the spacecraft for NASA based on its Ball Configurable Platform. The mission will use solar array panel from Rocket Lab company SolAero. The panel uses high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, quadruple-junction Z4J solar cells, laid down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}