During the Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) boost, the wing tips of the solar array are calculated to each deflect 1.06 metre. A camera on each wing tip, pointed at the Orion spacecraft, will closely ...

The boom supports four solar power and communication arrays, also called petals. Releasing the central boom pushes the still-stowed petals nearly three feet (one meter) away from the spacecraft bus.

These rockets, developed by Pulsar Fusion, would use an innovative nuclear fusion engine, the Direct Fusion Drive (DDFD). This system promises exhaust velocities far superior to current ...

Solar array deployment tests occurred between December 2020 and February 2021 in the 29-foot-by-65-foot (8.8-meter-by-19.8-meter) thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin Space, where the ...

Rocket Lab's family of customizable, next-generation solar arrays, Standardized Array (STARRAY), to meet the diverse power needs of satellites operating in any orbital conditions.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) caught a ride to space on April 24 on Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle and, at the end of August, NASA shared in a release that its mission ...

MARIETTA, Ga., July 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Atomic-6, manufacturer of the world's finest composite solutions, has won a $2 million TACFI (Tactical Funding Increase) from United States Space Force ...

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is now fully deployed after NASA succeeded in extending the mission’s experimental booms on Thursday at 1:33 p.m. ET, the space agency announced.

Marietta-based aerospace startup Atomic-6 has won a $2 million Tactical Funding Increase from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to mature and flight qualify the Light Wing solar array for ...