{"id":61797,"date":"2019-08-20T23:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/maxar-selects-solaero-for-power-and-propulsion-element-of-nasa-gateway\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T23:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:32:28","slug":"maxar-selects-solaero-for-power-and-propulsion-element-of-nasa-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/maxar-selects-solaero-for-power-and-propulsion-element-of-nasa-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxar Selects SolAero for Power and Propulsion Element of NASA Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SolAero Technologies<\/strong>, a provider of&nbsp; solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, was awarded a contract by <strong>Maxar Technologies&nbsp;<\/strong>to power the Power and Propulsion Element of <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Gateway. Under the terms of the contract, SolAero will design and manufacture Solar Power Modules (SPMs) that will supply nearly 70 kilowatts to the Gateway as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis lunar exploration plans, which will enable future missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The SPMs will be designed and manufactured in SolAero\u2019s production facility in Albuquerque, New Mexcio. The SPMs will incorporate SolAero\u2019s latest generation, quadruple-junction \u201cZ4J\u201d solar cells, and utilize automated assembly methods pioneered by SolAero for high-volume production of satellite solar panels and modules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolAero has had the honor of participating in over 30 NASA missions in our 20 year history and we\u2019re once again very proud to have the opportunity to support NASA on a trailblazing endeavor,\u201d said Brad Clevenger, President and CEO of SolAero. \u201cWe\u2019re also excited to continue working with our longtime partners at Maxar to bring our latest generation solar cell technology and advanced manufacturing capability to the Power and Propulsion Element.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolAero Technologies, a provider of&nbsp; solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, was awarded a contract by Maxar Technologies&nbsp;to power the Power and Propulsion Element of NASA\u2018s Gateway. Under the terms of the contract, SolAero will design and manufacture Solar Power Modules (SPMs) that will supply nearly 70 kilowatts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61800,"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-61797","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\/61797"}],"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=61797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}