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A year ago, a new space company called Redwire was announced, formed through private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. The company started out by acquiring Deep Space Systems (DSS), and there were a lot of questions about what direction this new venture might take. Since then, Redwire has had a busy year, and has
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SpaceX launched a cargo capsule to the International Space Station with more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and science, including a kidney-tissue experiment.
SpaceX launches solar arrays to space station for power system upgrade By William Harwood SpaceX launches solar arrays to space station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida Thursday and set off after the International Space Station carrying more than 7,000 pounds of supplies, science gear and other hardware, including the first two of six new roll-out solar wings to boost the lab s power.
Rolled up under tension like tightly bound 10-foot-wide carpets, the new arrays will be mounted at an angle to the lab s existing solar wings, unfurling on their own after latches are released, using the stored strain energy in uncoiling carbon composite booms on either side.