E ngineers have created a “cosmic veil”—a special protective coating—designed to shield solar cells on satellites and ...

The U.S.-based manufacturer of silicon solar PV technologies for space announced a project that requires it to manufacture, ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is ...

Its solar arrays must be equally compact. Automated photovoltaic assembly (PVA) of solar cells will be performed at Thales Alenia Space’s showcase Industry 4.0 facility in Hasselt, Belgium, with ...

The solar array, weighing a total of over 260 kilograms, comprises four wings, each consisting of three panels with 1,242 Gallium Arsenide cells per panel.

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's inner segment. Along ...

Solestial plans to demonstrate a two-week production sprint to manufacture 1 kW of spacecraft solar cells and modules, followed by a two-week solar array assembly and integration run. The project ...

Space solar cells presently available commercially are typically 100 times more expensive than the solar cells and modules widely deployed on Earth. This is because their manufacture employs an ...

The International Space Station has made it possible for people to have a sustained presence in space. But it may be surprising to some people that the solar cells that power the ISS are produced ...

SSPD-1 tested wireless power transmission, durability of solar cells in space, and the deployment of lightweight structures necessary for space solar power. Despite some deployment challenges, the ...

Along with this technology demonstration, SSPD hopes to drastically reduce the cost of space solar cells, which are currently as much as 100 times more expensive than traditional solar cells due to ...

Now, with SSPD-1’s mission in space concluded, engineers on Earth are celebrating the testbed’s successes and learning important lessons that will help chart the future of space solar power.