{"id":6698,"date":"2024-07-23T00:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrobotics-vertical-solar-array-enters-thermal-vacuum-testing\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:08:56","slug":"astrobotics-vertical-solar-array-enters-thermal-vacuum-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrobotics-vertical-solar-array-enters-thermal-vacuum-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrobotic\u2019s Vertical Solar Array Enters Thermal Vacuum Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astro_C_638572237400422706.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Astrobotic\u2019s Vertical Solar Array Enters Thermal Vacuum Testing\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astro_C_638572237400422706.jpg\" style=\"opacity: 0.0931958;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/astro_C_638572237400422706.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Astrobotic\u2019s Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) is a key technology that will be used to harness solar energy for our commercial lunar power grid is being prepped to enter thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing in Chamber A at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>This follows recent testing of our rover for VOLT, or VSAT Optimized for Lunar Traverse, at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center. VOLT brings together the 65+-foot-tall solar array in partnership with Redwire Space being tested now at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center, with a minivan-sized lunar rover.<\/p>\n<p>Astrobotic plans to unveil the fully-assembled VOLT engineering unit during the annual <strong>Keystone Space Conference<\/strong>, which is scheduled for October 28-29, 2024, in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More About LunaGrid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LunaGrid is a solar-based power generation and distribution service that will deliver power by the Watt to landers, rovers, habitats, science suites, and other lunar surface systems. The service will enable systems from companies, governments, universities, and non-profits to survive the lunar night and operate indefinitely at the lunar south pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrobotic\u2019s Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) is a key technology that will be used to harness solar energy for our commercial lunar power grid is being prepped to enter thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing in Chamber A at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center. This follows recent testing of our rover for VOLT, or VSAT Optimized for Lunar [&hellip;]<\/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":[26,25,20,62],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite","tag-solar-panels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698"}],"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=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}