Ascent Solar establishes rapid thin-film PV delivery process

Ascent Solar (ASTI) continues to set precedence via its new standard for rapid delivery of space-mission enabling PV products. The Company has now delivered mission-optimized solar array blanket spaceflight hardware assemblies to multiple customers, each in under three weeks from order. The Plug & Fly integrated and encapsulated solar array blanket assemblies delivered were custom-designed to conform to each customer’s requirements using Ascent’s commercial-off-the-shelf CIGS PV modules in conjunction with new spaceflight heritage derived CIGS PV module designs. Enhancements to the Company’s designs previously flown in space include lighter weight and thinner space-rated laminates that allow more power to be reliably produced on orbit by being able to roll and stow higher power solar arrays within each spacecraft’s dimensional constraints.