Northrop Grumman Wins Contract to Build Solar Arrays for Airbus' OneSat
Northrop Grumman will design, develop, and produce 24 ship sets of solar arrays for Airbus‘ new OneSat Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) satellite product line under the terms of a new contract award announced May 3. The 20kW-class OneSat solar arrays will be more than 18 meters long when deployed in an accordion-folded flexible solar array blanket. This system is based on Northrop Grumman’s lightweight Compact Telescoping Array (CTA) design, which was developed for missions that require extremely compact stowage volume for spacecraft launch while remaining lightweight. Northrop Grumman said th...
Source: satellitetoday.com