Pumpkin Deployable Solar Panels

Ten weeks after an initial meeting pumpkin had delivered the all new functional array to novaworks and in 2010 the leo mission executed successfully carrying the ngc novaworks core 2u and an additional 1u payload named caerus from usc isi.

Pumpkin deployable solar panels.

Pumpkin s relationship with novawurks harkens back to the ngc novaworks mayflower 3u cubesat mission for which pumpkin built a deployable 56w solar array in 2009. Pumpkin developed the bus structure and deployable solar panels and integrated the uhf s band and gps antennas panel release mechanisms prms various bus sensors and other mission specific components. Ten weeks after an initial meeting pumpkin had delivered the all new functional array to novaworks and in 2010 the leo mission executed successfully carrying the ngc novaworks core 2u and an additional 1u payload named caerus from usc isi. Pumpkin has delivered thousands of watts of high quality standard and custom solar panels to multiple space missions.

Our 6th generation panels employ carbon composite cores for improved thermal performance. They feature the pumpkin modular deployable solar array system pmdsas and all cell interconnect coverglass cic construction with triple junction cells. Pumpkin supplies solar panels to a wide range of nanosatellites through our proprietary pumpkin modular deployable solar array systems pmdsas technology now in its sixth generation. Pumpkin s relationship with novawurks harkens back to the ngc novaworks mayflower 3u cubesat mission for which pumpkin built a deployable 56w solar array in 2009.

We just received word that the solar panels on the 3u bgusat cubesat continues to work perfectly 7 months into the bgusat mission. No comparable array existed at that time. Deployable solar panels pumpkin structure jpl nav comm x band radio jpl electrical power system battery board u. The panels are space proven and have been deployed from leo to gto orbits.

Pumpkin s collection of solar array hardware permits a wide range of hinged solar array configurations beyond those illustrated here e g puddle jumper 3u nadir pointing configuration pumpkin can deliver solar panels and solar arrays using these assembly techniques on short order not only for cubesats. Turnaround times for some custom panels have been as short as 2 3 days. Pumpkin pioneered compact deployable arrays for cubesats and continues to innovate in this area. As part of our typical fixed firm price ffp nanosatellite offerings this misc 3 is highly customized for dst group.

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