Tag: Solar Array Drive Mechanisms
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Sierra Space Announces Opening of New Power Station Technology Center
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced a technology center expansion aimed at scaling up the production and delivery of the company’s groundbreaking Surface Mount Technology (SMT) solar power systems, including production for national defense applications.…
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Sidus Space Advances $120M Lonestar Deal and Selects Atomic-6 for Lunar Mission
Sidus Space, an innovative space and defense technology provider, announced the next milestone under its expanded $120 million preliminary agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings to support the world’s first lunar data centers. Atomic-6 has been selected to supply its Light Wing solar arrays, which are expected to power Sidus’ LizzieSat satellites supporting Lonestar’s cislunar data…
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Frontgrade’s HiRel Solar Array Drive Assembly Offers LEO to GEO Mission Requirements
Frontgrade Technologies, a provider company of mission critical electronics and electro-mechanical devices for aerospace and defense, is providing the SADA-150, a solar array drive assembly whose reliability and durability are ideally suited for the most stringent mission requirements, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO) applications. Frontgrade’s SADA-150 technology is designed to…
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Sierra Space Introduces New Solar Array Drive Solutions for High-Volume Satellite Market
Sierra Space, a commercial space-tech company that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, 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…
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Beyond Gravity Supplies Key Products for New European Navigation Satellites
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) will deliver key products like thermal insulation, the mechanisms for solar array wings and thruster pointing, the satellite structure, and the thermal insulation to the next generation of European navigation satellites. Two more European Galileo navigation satellites were launched into space and In parallel, work on the second generation of…
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Redwire Selected by NASA to Develop Technology for Building Critical Infrastructure on Moon
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, has been selected for a $12.9 million NASA Tipping Point award to prototype a first-of-its-kind manufacturing technology intended to build critical infrastructure on the surface of the Moon, including landing pads, roads and foundations for habitats. This technology could enable…
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KONGSBERG Introduces Antenna Pointing Mechanism for LEO Data Downlink and Inter Satellite Link Antennas
KONGSBERG one of the leading global technology corporations and premier supplier of defense and aerospace-related systems delivering mission-critical solutions has introduced a new Antenna Pointing Mechanism for both LEO data downlink antennas and Inter Satellite Link antennas. The KARMA-7 FG is a state-of-the-art space-qualified Antenna Pointing System that consists of two main sub-systems, the mechanism…
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Techno Planet’s Solar Array Drive Assemblies Power Momentus’ Vigoride-5 Spacecraft
For the first time, Techno Planet Inc. (TPI), a woman-owned and family-run spacecraft mechanisms design and manufacturing company, has hardware operating in orbit. Techno Planet Inc. has operated as a consultancy for the past 15 years. However, as New Space emerged, customer needs evolved and demand grew for TPI to not only design but also…