US EditionAscent Solar Technologies Enters Collaborative Agreement Notice with NASA to Advance Development of Thin-Film PV Power Beaming Capabilities
- On June 26, 2025, Ascent Solar Technologies announced the start of a year-long partnership with NASA’s Marshall and Glenn Research Centers aimed at enhancing thin-film photovoltaic power beaming technologies.
- This agreement builds on prior NASA bench tests in 2024 demonstrating receiving beamed power using Ascent's flexible CIGS photovoltaic modules validated by NASA's Psyche Mission laser communications.
- The collaboration aims to improve array output and duty cycles, enabling power delivery in harsh space conditions like lunar nights and shadowed craters while reducing mission mass and complexity.
- Ascent CEO Paul Warley emphasized that thin-film solar technology will be essential in addressing the challenges of effective solar energy conversion in harsh space conditions, highlighting the recent milestone of achieving a record 15.7% efficiency at production scale as a key advancement.
- This project could yield commercial beamed power-ready solar arrays by 2026, potentially lowering costs and enabling sustainable lunar and deep space missions, though challenges like launch capacity and efficiency remain.
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