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satellites have a have a common problem

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and that is they're always power starved

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no matter where you are there's not

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enough power and conventional solar

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power comes from rigid deployable arrays

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typically with cover glass they're

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somewhat fragile easily damaged during

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packaging and it's difficult to get a

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lot of power in a small spacecraft which

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is the current generation of cube SATs

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and ultra small spacecraft what we're

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doing in this test is we're

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demonstrating the ability to take next

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generation very flexible solar arrays

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fold them package them into a very small

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volume and deploy them once they're in

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space so that you can get a large

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surface area and generate a lot of power

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the way this all got started was we were

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working with several companies on very

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thin film lightweight solar cells these

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are very different than the solar cells

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that are used in space applications

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today and they they're very flexible

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they're very light and they're mountable

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on on a variety of substrates including

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aluminum or captain and we were thinking

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about structures that we can mount them

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on and we realized that inflatable

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structures were were the perfect

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mounting structures for those and that

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they gave us a very rigid structure that

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would hold the lightweight array and

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would also provide very small storage

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volume for the array that you end up

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the unit you see who came from a concept

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study that we did for a micro set that

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would implement a telescope application

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and so we took the concept design that

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we had and actually built the test

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article out of it

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the silver substrate pieces that you see

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aren't print of the solar arrays but we

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had one actual solar cell that we

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attached to the pedal instrumented and

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we did flash tests of it in the

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beginning and we wrapped it up for

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deployment now we've done the deployment

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and you know do another test to assure

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that the deployment hasn't damaged it

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there are a lot of applications for this

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technology we envision that you could

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use this inflatable or deployables solar

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array system everything from cube SATs

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which are was a very small 10 centimeter

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by 10 centimeter spacecraft which are

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typically very very power limited

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something like this could be packaged in

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about 1/3 of the volume and inflate to

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something this size providing unheard of

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power for small SATs primarily in

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low-earth orbit you could also take this

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technology and use it for human

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exploration in deep space and deploy

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incredibly large thanks size of this

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room or bigger arrays packaged into

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the next steps for the technology are to

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take this demonstration which we believe

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is shown of the viability of this at

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technology readiness level 4 and start