Sierra Space has announced two new complementary products to support the growing satellite market.
A new Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA), with multiple options, and a new commercial variant of its heritage Universal Microstepping Control Driver (UMCD) combine recent technological-component advancements with Sierra Space’s 35+ years of spaceflight expertise to create cost-effective solar array-management systems at reduced lead times.
These new product offerings will benefit the satellite industry by making solar array mechanisms more affordable and more quickly available for burgeoning high volume applications.
All of these products are now available to order as a solution for new space customers where high-reliability products are needed with expedited lead times.
“We’re committed to growing a Low Earth Orbit economy and one aspect of supporting that mission is creating cost-effective commercial products delivered in reduced lead times,” said Rusty Thomas, SVP & General Manager of Sierra Space’s Space Applications Sector and Chief Technology Officer. “To build a robust Low Earth Orbit economy, the industry needs to move at a pace in which it can grow unimpeded. These new solar array products will help support that much-needed high-volume growth.”
Sierra Space is a leading commercial space company at the forefront of innovation and the commercialization of space in the Orbital Age®, building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth. With more than 30 years and 500 missions of space flight heritage, the company is reinventing both space transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s only commercial spaceplane, and the future of space destinations with the company’s inflatable and expandable space station technology. Using commercial business models, the company is also delivering orbital services to commercial, DoD and national security organizations, expanding production capacity to meet the needs of constellation programs. In addition, Sierra Space builds a host of systems and subsystems across solar power, mechanics and motion control, environmental control, life support, propulsion and thermal control, offering myriad space-as-a-service solutions for the new space economy.