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August 11, 2018

NASA Announces New Partnerships To Develop Space Exploration Technologies

Will Work On 10 'Tipping Point' Technologies For Future Missions

NASA is partnering with six U.S. companies to develop 10 "tipping point" technologies that have the potential to significantly benefit the commercial space economy and future NASA missions, including lunar lander and deep space rocket engine technologies.

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Alta Devices Powers Successful CubeSat Mission

Modular, Lightweight And Highly Efficient Solar Cells Enabled Rapid Development And Deployment Of FastBus Small Satellite Platform

A successful CubeSat mission by Twiggs Space Lab, LLC (TSL), NearSpace Launch, Inc. (NSL) and their launch logistics partner, NanoRacks LLC (NanoRacks), was powered by Alta Devices solar. The Asgardia-1 satellite was based on NSL’s FastBus platform and powered by approximately 24 watts of Alta solar cells. Launched in November 2017 on an Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman) cargo resupply mission, the 2U-size FastBus was inserted into a 475 km low earth orbit in December 2017 via the NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployer.

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