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The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter

August 12, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Blue Origin, Blue Ring Paylaod (Blue Origin), Mars, NASA Mission to Mars, News, Solar Electric Propulsion

Arianespace to launch Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites and CNES’s MicroCarb satellite on July 25 from French Guiana

July 16, 2025

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, […]

Filed Under: Airbus Defence and Space, Arianespace, CNES, CO3D (Airbus), Electric, Electric Propulsion, Europe's Spaceport, Launch Facilities, Launch Platform, Launch Preparations, Launch Services, Mapping, Microcarb (CNES), Satellites, Solar Electric Propulsion, Sun, Sun Synchronous (SSO), UK Space Agency, Vega C, Vega Launcher, Vega-C

Redwire deploys a powerful Roll-Out Solar Array + prepares for major delivery in Q4

July 7, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: NASA Gateway, News, Redwire, Redwire Space, Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA), Solar Electric Propulsion

Ascent Solar Technologies to fly space solar modules on NASA’s upcoming LISA-T mission

February 26, 2024

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 […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Ascent Solar Technologies, CubeSat, Demo Mission, LISA-T Mission (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, News, SmallSat, Smallsat Solar Array, Solar, Solar Arrays, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solar Power Project, Space Technology Mission Directorate

Solestial + Atomos reach solar blanket deal

August 2, 2023

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 […]

Filed Under: Atomos Space, In-Space Transportation, Radiation Hardened, Solar Blankets, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solestial, Inc.

Rocket Lab to supply solar power for the USSF’s new missile warning satellites

July 28, 2022

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) […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Contracts, Lockheed Martin, Military, Missile Warning, Radiation-Hardened, Rocket Lab, SBIRS, Solar Cells, Solar Electric Propulsion, U.S. Space Force

NanoAvionics’ Solar Sail Selected For NASA’s ACS3 Mission

May 11, 2022

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 […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Contracts, Payload Integration, SmallSat, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solar Sail Tagged With: Featured

Maxar Has Delivered The Spacecraft Bus for NASA’s Psyche Mission

April 13, 2022

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 […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Asteroids, Manufacturing, NASA, Solar Electric Propulsion, Spacecraft, USA

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