Ascent Solar (ASTI) Technologies announced that the company is commencing work on a Collaborative Agreement Notice with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and support from NASA Glenn Research Center to efficiently advance capabilities for receiving beamed power using CIGS PV modules. The CAN program targets rapid iterative development to mature commercial products for enabling mission architectures to include beamed power. The public-private partnership includes Ascent contributing design and prototyping services with NASA providing technical subject matter expertise and test services through combined MSFC & GRC efforts. This 12-month technology maturation will result in commercial products being made available for distributed space power infrastructure, drastically lowering the cost, complexity and risk of NASA missions.
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