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The Space Race Has a Solar Panel Problem - Source Energy Wants to Make It Boring
Satellites cannot work without electricity, yet their solar arrays can take longer to buy than the spacecraft takes to build. Source Energy is betting that standardized silicon, automated production, and a catalog mentality can turn a mission risk into an ordinary purchase order.
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Hardware · Climate · Enterprise
Solestial, Inc.
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.
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