Redwire Wins About $40 Million NASA Award to Demonstrate Solar Power Generation for the Moon Base Program
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) announced on November 10 that it has been selected for an approximately $40 million award from NASA to provide an integrated power generation system supporting the agency's Moon Base efforts, adapting its flight-proven Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) technology for the lunar surface.
Redwire said the system will use ROSA as its core and serve as a pathfinder for providing interfaces and usable power on the lunar surface for future rovers, habitats, and in-situ resource utilization activity. The selection comes just days after astronauts successfully installed and deployed the eighth and final Redwire-built ROSA wing on the International Space Station, where the eight wings are now supplementing the station's power supply.
"Moon Base is one of the most important human spaceflight initiatives for America since Apollo, and I could not be more grateful, proud, and excited for Redwire to power this extraordinary endeavor," said Mike Gold, President of Redwire Space. "ROSA has proven itself in Earth orbit and beyond for a variety of public and private missions."
ROSA technology was developed via a NASA public-private partnership between Redwire and its customer Boeing. Redwire will support NASA's Moon Base Infrastructure Office in conducting an autonomous, integrated power generation demonstration near the lunar South Pole. NASA plans to purchase commercial components for a Mini-Communications and Solar Tower (miniCAST), including solar arrays, batteries, and wireless power-transfer hardware.
The system will validate vertically deployed solar power generation, mast-mounted payload operations, and survival through the lunar night, helping reduce technical risk and inform the development of future larger power systems. Redwire previously advanced ROSA for vertical deployment and retraction in the lunar gravity environment through NASA's Vertical Solar Array Technology program.
Redwire said it has more than 65 solar array wings delivered or in development and approximately 1,400 employees across North America and Europe.
(Source: Redwire Corporation)
Source: Redwire Corporation
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Photo: 图：国际空间站上展开的卷轴式太阳翼（ROSA）（NASA，公共领域，Wikimedia Commons）。 / Image: A Roll-Out Solar Array deployed on the International Space Station (NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
