
After two decades inside the machinery of spacecraft power, the Colorado engineer is betting that the next space bottleneck will be solved less like a moonshot and more like a factory problem.
Solestial is a Tempe, Arizona space-solar company building ultrathin, radiation-hardened silicon photovoltaic modules for satellites and spacecraft. Spun out of Arizona State University research, the company makes flexible space-grade solar power modules that self-cure radiation damage at operating temperatures and targets the megawatt-class power demand of large satellite constellations and on-orbit infrastructure.