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Frontgrade Technologies<\/strong>, a provider company of mission critical electronics and electro-mechanical devices for aerospace and defense, is providing the SADA-150, a solar array drive assembly whose reliability and durability are ideally suited for the most stringent mission requirements, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO) applications.<\/p>\n Frontgrade\u2019s SADA-150 technology is designed to improve the energy efficiency of solar power distribution onboard a spacecraft by accurately positioning and optimizing the orientation of its solar panels, which helps ensure a consistent, reliable power source for each mission. The SADA-150 is currently operating on spacecraft around MARS and on its surface, evidence of the system\u2019s robustness in a deep space environment.<\/p>\n \u201cThe flight heritage of our SADA-150 represents Frontgrade\u2019s ongoing commitment to deliver highly reliable, assured components for critical space applications<\/em>,\u201d said <\/strong>Lorne Graves<\/strong>, Chief Technology Officer at Frontgrade Technologies.<\/strong> \u201cWe focus on providing customers with SWaP-C products like our SADAs and rad-hard stepper motor controllers and ensuring that they meet critical design requirements for the most complex missions.\u201d<\/p>\n Frontgrade leverages its extensive in-house qualification and functional testing capabilities across the company\u2019s motion control portfolio, including the SADA-150. Each SADA runs through shock, vibration, and temperature testing to ensure its quality requirements for long-term mission durations.<\/p>\n As its name suggests, the SADA-150 has an inertial capability of 150 Kg-m2, which is custom designed with a harmonic gear reduction assembly, output position potentiometer, and space-grade twist capsule or slip ring assembly. These components are driven by Frontgrade\u2019s industry-leading brushless stepper motor to meet any mission\u2019s performance and reliability requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frontgrade Technologies, a provider company of mission critical electronics and electro-mechanical devices for aerospace and defense, is providing the SADA-150, a solar array drive assembly whose reliability and durability are ideally suited for the most stringent mission requirements, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO) applications. Frontgrade\u2019s SADA-150 technology is designed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[25,42,105,62],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satcom","tag-solar-array-drive-mechanisms","tag-solar-panels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450"}],"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=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}