We create world-class innovative solutions that are powering the new space race and the world's only vertically-integrated supplier of satellite solar panels.
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SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
It's asteroid smashing time! Our recently acquired companies, SolAero and PSC, helped enable the DART mission by providing solar cells and the satellite dispenser from which DART was deployed.
We'll be watching NASA's live broadcast of this super exciting mission 🛰️
🛰️ This is only a test – of planetary defense. Today, our #DARTMission is set to crash into a non-hazardous asteroid to test deflection technology, should we ever discover a threat.
Impact: 7:14pm ET (23:14 UTC). Watch our LIVE broadcast at 6pm ET: youtu.be/4RA8Tfa6Sck
SolAero will be participating in this years Lobo Cancer Challenge! You can support the team at the link below
lobocancerchallenge.org/inde…
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
The NGG program is part of the latest evolution of the USSF’s missile warning system, following the Space Based Infrared System program, which was supported by our team at SolAero, the space solar power company we acquired in January 2022.
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
We’re supplying space solar power for the @SpaceForceDoD’s new missile warning satellites, designed by @LMSpace. Learn more about our support for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit program. bwnews.pr/3zgJke6
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
What do you tell your young son who covertly tried to make a rocket engine out of a can in the garage? By all accounts the explosion was significant. I went with, “check your nozzle diameter”
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
We’re powering up two heliophysics missions in 2025 - NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft and NOAA’s SWFO-L1, both manufactured by Ball Aerospace. Rocket Lab is no stranger to heliophysics missions, having previously powered the Parker Solar Probe and the Magnetosphere Multiscale mission.
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We’re powering another mission to study the Sun! We’ve been selected by @BallAerospace to build the solar array panel on @NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft. Read more: bwnews.pr/396x5YG
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
🌕 Lunar Update: More hardware coming to fruition as our partner @SolaeroTech delivered the three flight solar panels that will support our Blue Ghost M1 landing on the Moon early 2024. Learn more about our @NASA sponsored mission. firefly.com/blue-ghost/
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
COPIA has spread its wings!🛰️
This hardware from Astrix Astronautics was a hosted payload on the Kick Stage for #ThereAndBackAgain.
The inflatable solar arrays successfully unfurled, demonstrating a key step in scalable and affordable power generation in space.
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
Congrats to the team at @fireflyspace on this exciting mission milestone! We're thrilled to be supporting Blue Ghost with GNC and spacecraft software via our Colorado-based team🌑
🌕 Lunar News! Firefly has completed the Integration Readiness Review (IRR) of Blue Ghost M1. Special thanks to @NASA for participating, our teammates at ASI by Rocket Lab, and all the Firefly employees who made IRR a success. ow.ly/mXOt50ITCQe
Light that candle! 🚀
Onward to launch! We completed a successful rehearsal for our next mission with @SpaceflightInc & @BlackSky_Inc. Now targeting April 02 for launch to avoid bad weather.
Window opens:
🚀UTC | 12:10, April 02
🚀NZDT | 01:10, April 03
🚀EDT | 08:10, April 02
🚀PDT | 05:10, April 02
21 and counting, Let’s go #Ingenuity!
#MarsHelicopter can’t be stopped! Ingenuity successfully completed its 21st flight on the Red Planet. The small rotorcraft traveled 370 meters at a speed of 3.85 meters per second and stayed aloft for 129.2 seconds. go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
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The team @NASAJPL putting our solar panels by @SolaeroTech to the test! In August these arrays are headed to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to support the study of the asteroid Psyche. go.nasa.gov/3CjinYu
Dreams unfurling: the largest solar arrays ever installed @NASAJPL have been fitted to the #MissionToPsyche spacecraft. Its journey to a metal-rich asteroid is planned to get underway in August! Details: go.nasa.gov/3CjinYu
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
Our solar panels are getting ready to power @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its 2.4 billion km journey to a mysterious, metal-rich asteroid! Check out the arrays being tested at @NASAJPL ahead of the August mission. go.nasa.gov/3I0vZsQ #MissionToPsyche
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
Conversion efficiency of ~33.3% in volume production. Sucking up those photons real good.
Introducing our highest efficiency & lightest weight solar cell yet: the IMM-β. Developed by @Solaerotech, IMM-β is more than 40% lighter than typical space grade solar cells & delivers the highest efficiency of any commercial space solar cell globally. bwnews.pr/3hRcLeG
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
Introducing our highest efficiency & lightest weight solar cell yet: the IMM-β. Developed by @Solaerotech, IMM-β is more than 40% lighter than typical space grade solar cells & delivers the highest efficiency of any commercial space solar cell globally. bwnews.pr/3hRcLeG
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
#MissionToPsyche is prepping for its 1.5 billion-mile journey to explore a mysterious asteroid of the same name. In February, twin solar arrays were attached to the spacecraft’s body, unfolded to their 37-foot lengths & re-stowed as testing continues. go.nasa.gov/3pMnNq2
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
Tomorrow 34 more @OneWeb satellites are headed to space! These will join almost 400 other OneWeb sats already on orbit, all powered by solar panels created by our team at @SolaeroTech. #MoreThanJustRocketsInThisLab
It’s rollout day for #OneWebLaunch13! 🚀
The rocket carrying 34 OneWeb satellites is at the launch pad to prepare for lift-off this week.
Don’t forget to join us this Thursday to watch on LinkedIn Live or YouTube!
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
It's official! Our transaction to acquire @SolaeroTech has successfully closed, adding the biggest production line of space solar cells in the world to our space systems business. Welcome to the team, SolAero.
More: bwnews.pr/3FSfnmh
SolAero by Rocket Lab retweeted
The @NASAWebb space telescope is the 1,002nd satellite powered by @SolAeroTech! SolAero supplied the high-efficiency triple-junction solar cells to @northropgrumman for integration into solar panels & solar arrays to power the Webb spacecraft.
