Blue Origin designs and manufactures heavy-lift rockets, transporters, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet efficiently and affordably. Built upon the company’s existing and affordable Blue Ring platform, the […]
Solar Electric Propulsion
Arianespace to launch Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites and CNES’s MicroCarb satellite on July 25 from French Guiana
On Friday July 25th, 2025, at 11:03 p.m. local time (02:03 a.m. UTC, 04:03 a.m. CEST, on July 26th, 2025), Arianespace is to launch Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites, […]
Redwire deploys a powerful Roll-Out Solar Array + prepares for major delivery in Q4
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has successfully completed the first deployment test for one of its Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) for the lunar Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE). Powered by […]
Ascent Solar Technologies to fly space solar modules on NASA’s upcoming LISA-T mission
Ascent Solar Technologies (Nasdaq: ASTI) has announced that the Company’s solar module products will fly on NASA’s upcoming Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and AnTenna (LISA-T) mission, scheduled for launch this […]
Solestial + Atomos reach solar blanket deal
Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”) and Atomos Space (“Atomos”) have engaged in a multi-mission, sales agreement for a minimum of 20 kilowatts (“kW”) of Solestial’s ultrathin, low-mass, radiation-hardened solar blankets. Solestial’s photovoltaic […]
Rocket Lab to supply solar power for the USSF’s new missile warning satellites
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced that the company’s high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, Coverglass Interconnected solar Cell (CIC) assemblies will power the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO (NGG) […]
NanoAvionics’ Solar Sail Selected For NASA’s ACS3 Mission
NanoAvionics was recently selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an on-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA […]
Maxar Has Delivered The Spacecraft Bus for NASA’s Psyche Mission
Late last month, Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) delivered the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the NASA Discovery Mission, Psyche. The SEP Chassis is […]