News & Events - SolAero Technologies, Inc.

May 25, 2018

LA Times: Southern California suppliers learn to adjust to slowdown in satellite orders

Southern California suppliers learn to adjust to slowdown in Satellite Orders LA Times, May 23, 2018 – SpaceX on Tuesday blasted six small commercial satellites to low-Earth orbit. It was the company’s 10th launch this year — but the payload itself may be a sign of what’s to come. Like many companies, Iridium Communications Inc. […]

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April 13, 2018

SolAero to Begin OneWeb Solar Panel Production

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL — SolAero Technologies Corp. will begin producing solar panels for the world’s largest low-earth-orbit satellite constellation next month at the company’s newly-refurbished Albuquerque factory. SolAero invested $10 million to convert about 40 percent of its 100,000-square-foot facility at the Sandia Science and Technology Park into a one-stop-shop for making fully-assembled solar […]

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April 9, 2018

Bye Aerospace, SolAero Technologies Announce Successful Solar Wing Ground Test

Bye Aerospace Press Release Albuquerque, NM – November 10, 2017 – SolAero Technologies Corp is pleased to announce successful completion of ground testing of the integrated solar wings on Bye Aerospace’s medium-altitude, long-endurance solar-electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called “StratoAirNet”. SolAero successfully integrated lightweight, flexible solar modules incorporating their state-of-the-art, high efficiency solar cell technology […]

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SolAero Technologies Awarded Contract to Power the Europa Clipper Mission for NASA/JPL

Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 8, 2017 – SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), a leading provider of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) for the design, manufacture and testing of solar

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ABQ Journal: SolAero makes its mark in space

Albuquerque-based SolAero Technologies Corp. is helping to push human spacecraft into some of the farthest reaches of our solar system.

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SolAero Technologies provides solar power for NRL’s Solar-Soaring UAV Project

Albuquerque, NM – March 21, 2017 – SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), a leading provider of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, announced today that it has delivered its high performance, lightweight solar cell technology to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to power its Solar-Soaring UAV demonstrator.

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SolAero Technologies Awarded Dual Satellite Mission from German Company OHB System AG

SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), a leading provider of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, announced today that it has been awarded two contracts by OHB System AG (OHB) for the design, manufacture and testing of solar array panels for two upcoming satellite missions, SARah and EnMAP. [...]

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SolAero Technologies provides primary power to 91 satellites in record-breaking launch

Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 21, 2017 – SolAero Technologies Corp (SolAero), a leading provider of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products, extends our sincere congratulations to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on its successful, record-breaking launch

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February 6, 2017

SpaceNews: SolAero modernizing New Mexico solar-panel factory for massive OneWeb contract

WASHINGTON — Solar-panel manufacturer SolAero Technologies is investing $10 million to expand its Albuquerque, New Mexico, facility to produce solar panels for OneWeb’s constellation of 900 low-Earth-orbit telecommunciations satellites, SolAero announced Feb. 2. [...]

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February 4, 2017

ABQ Journal: SolAero to launch $10M expansion in ABQ

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At least 80 new high-tech solar jobs are coming to Albuquerque under a SolAero Technologies Corp. plan to invest $10 million in a first-of-its-kind, 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for solar cells used in spacecraft. [...]

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