Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has unveiled its new line of customizable solar arrays, known as Standardized Array (STARRAY), designed to support diverse satellite power requirements across all orbital conditions.
STARRAY arrays can be tailored to meet satellite power requirements between 100 watts and over 2,000 watts by integrating up to four panels per wing and leveraging Rocket Lab’s high-efficiency, radiation-hardened quadruple junction solar cells. The solution is optimized for flexibility and performance, enabling customers to meet mission-specific requirements with minimal non-recurring engineering investments.
“Our objective is to offer the industry mission–specific customization with short lead times and lower costs,” said Brad Clevenger, Vice President of Space Systems at Rocket Lab. “Customers can choose from a range of pre-engineered solar array configurations to meet the needs of their application while leveraging the flight-proven reliability, performance, and speed of Rocket Lab’s vertically integrated manufacturing.”
Rocket Lab operates the world’s only vertically integrated solar array manufacturing capability. This includes the production of solar cells, cell assemblies (CICs), panel substrates, complete solar panels, and integrated solar arrays.
With over two decades of flight heritage, Rocket Lab’s space-grade solar technology has supported civil, national security, and commercial space programs such as missile awareness systems and interplanetary science missions, including NASA’s Artemis lunar explorations, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Mars Insight Lander, and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Rocket Lab technology also powers a growing commercial satellite market, including constellations like OneWeb’s GEN1 broadband internet LEO constellation. The company reports that currently more than 1,100 in-orbit satellites are powered by Rocket Lab solar products.
About Rocket Lab
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) is an end-to-end space company offering launch services, satellite manufacturing, spacecraft components, and on-orbit management solutions, with the goal of making space access faster, easier, and more affordable. Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle, a family of spacecraft platforms, and is developing the large Neutron vehicle for constellation deployment. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually, delivering over 200 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations, enabling operations in national security, scientific research, space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab’s spacecraft platforms have been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital site in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia.
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