Redwire Providing Navigation and Power Technology for NASA’s First Planetary Defense Mission
17 11월 2021 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, is providing
critical navigation components and roll-out solar array (ROSA)
technology for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
mission, the world’s first planetary defense test mission. The
mission is set to launch no earlier than November 23 at 10:20 p.m.
PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Redwire delivered two Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) for the DART
program through a contract with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory (APL). The two solar arrays, which each unfurl to 28
feet when fully deployed, will power the entire spacecraft. The
arrays will feature Redwire’s Flexible Array Concentrator
Technology (FACT) Solar Power Modules, which use high efficiency
SolAero Inverted Metamorphic Module 4J Photovoltaic solar cells, as
a Transformational Solar Array demonstration. Redwire also
delivered a Digital Sun Sensor system consisting of five Digital
Sun Sensor heads and one Digital Sun Sensor electronics processing
unit, which will be used for attitude control and fail-safe
recovery throughout the mission.
“Redwire is proud to partner with APL and NASA on this historic
mission and it’s incredibly exciting to see our technology used to
advance Earth’s planetary defense capabilities,” said Andrew Rush,
President and COO of Redwire. “As a critical mission partner, we
are leveraging our innovative, flight-proven technology to enable
truly game-changing missions, like DART, that are expanding our
understanding of the solar system and ushering in an exciting new
era of exploration.”
DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor
technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. The DART
spacecraft will travel millions of miles to a binary asteroid,
Didymos, where it will crash into its moonlet to adjust its speed
and trajectory. As humankind’s first planetary defense mission,
DART will demonstrate critical technology that could one day be
used to protect Earth from a dangerous asteroid or comet.
First demonstrated on the International Space Station (ISS) in
2017, Redwire‘s ROSA technology is compact, modular and scalable,
making it ideal for use on various spaceflight platforms. In June
2021, two ROSA arrays were successfully installed and deployed on
the ISS to provide a critical power boost, and four more arrays
under contract with Boeing will be installed over the next two
years. Redwire is also producing various modular versions of ROSA
for many government and commercial spaceflight applications,
including Maxar’s Power and Propulsion Element for NASA’s Gateway
program and the Ovzon 3 GEO spacecraft for Maxar’s Legion-class
satellites.
Redwire’s Digital Sun Sensor has a rich flight heritage and is
valued for its accuracy, durability, and compact and lightweight
design. Other missions and spacecraft the Digital Sun Sensors have
supported include: Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers A and
B, Mars Science Lander Curiosity, Mars 2020 Perseverance, IRIS, and
Cassini-Huygens.
Building on decades of flight heritage combined with new space
technology, Redwire’s advanced sensors and components are enabling
unparalleled navigation and power generation capabilities,
providing more flexibility and capability on-orbit with more
processing power and smaller form factors.
To learn more about Redwire's involvement in this historic
mission, visit www.redwirespace.com.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a leader in mission critical
space solutions and high reliability components for the next
generation space economy, with valuable IP for solar power
generation and in-space 3D printing and manufacturing. With decades
of flight heritage combined with the agile and innovative culture
of a commercial space platform, Redwire is uniquely positioned to
assist its customers in solving the complex challenges of future
space missions. For more information, please visit
www.redwirespace.com.
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