Redwire Announces Follow-On Contract to Develop Additional Roll-Out Solar Arrays for the International Space Station
June 28 2023 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Development of two additional Roll-Out Solar
Arrays announced following the successful deployment of the sixth
Redwire-built array on the space station.
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced
today that it has been awarded a follow-on contract from Boeing to
develop two additional Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSA) for the
International Space Station (ISS).
The IROSAs augment the space station’s power supply to support
critical research and space operations. This award is a follow-on
to Redwire’s contract to deliver six IROSAs, which were developed
in partnership with Boeing’s Spectrolab and delivered to NASA under
contract with Boeing, NASA’s prime contractor for space station
operations.
“We are proud of the successful deployment of six IROSAs on the
ISS to date, making it the gold standard for large-scale power
generation with proven flight heritage. The continuation of the
program with the award of an additional two IROSAs, bringing the
total to eight arrays, is a testament to the excellence and
dedication of our team and the coordination amongst our suppliers
and partners,” said Peter Cannito, Redwire Chairman and CEO.
“The six IROSAs installed on the ISS are innovative examples to
support further utilization with technologies and systems that were
not envisioned when the ISS was designed and built," said John
Mulholland, Boeing vice president and program manager for the ISS.
"It is a tribute to the performance of the design, build, and
operational teams that NASA has contracted for two additional
arrays to complete the upgrade to the full eight-array set.”
Since 2021, a total of six Redwire-built arrays have been
developed, delivered, and deployed on the ISS, augmenting its
critical power supply. Each wing provides an additional 20+ kW of
power once deployed, and all eight IROSA wings combined will
provide more than 160 kW for over 10 years.
Redwire has continued to advance ROSA technology to power other
spaceflight platforms and ambitious missions with reliable and
stable power solutions. Redwire is currently building ROSA for the
Power and Propulsion Element for NASA’s Gateway program, a part of
the agency’s Artemis program, and Astrobotic’s Lunar Vertical Solar
Array program, which aims to provide sustainable power on the lunar
surface. Along with its previous success on the ISS, ROSA
technology powered NASA’s DART spacecraft to impact asteroid
Dimorphos, successfully altering the asteroid’s orbit in September
2022.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a global leader in mission
critical space solutions and high reliability components for the
next generation space economy, with valuable intellectual property
for solar power generation, in-space 3D printing and manufacturing,
avionics, critical components, sensors, digital engineering and
space-based biotechnology. We combine decades of flight heritage
with an agile and innovative culture. Our “Heritage plus
Innovation” strategy enables us to combine proven performance with
new, innovative capabilities to provide our customers with the
building blocks for the present and future of space infrastructure.
For more information, please visit redwirespace.com.
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