NASA Award Will Advance Lunar Power Development
Astrobotic VSAT-XL Would Support Large-Scale Missions on the Moon
NASA has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) worth approximately $150k to Astrobotic for the development of an Extra Large Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT-XL) for the Moon. VSAT-XL’s impressive size, 34m tall and 12.5m wide (≈112 x 41 feet), would be the largest planned lunar power infrastructure technology to date to meet the grow…
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