Sidus Space Inc (NASDAQ:SIDU) has announced a partnership with GTM Advanced Structures (GTM) to integrate their space-proven solar panels into LizzieSat, Sidus Space’s proprietary partially 3-D printed satellite.
Sidus Space is in the advanced stages of developing LizzieSat, which is expected to launch in 2023. The satellite design utilizes a combination of eight deployed and additional body-mounted solar panels to generate up to 400 watts of usable power for satellite operations and up to 50 watts continuous for payloads.
“We’re excited to partner with GTM, an AS9100 certified company, to integrate its space-proven solar panels into LizzieSat, providing our satellite with solar power and furthering our sustainability efforts,” said Carol Craig, Sidus Space founder and CEO in a statement.
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“GTM is utilizing its space-proven solar panel manufacturing heritage, employing industry leading Azur Space solar cell assemblies (SCA) to provide Sidus Space with high reliability performance over the orbital lifetime of LizzieSat.
“The solar panels are both fixed body mounted and deployable arrays providing a maximum level of exposure for power generation,” she added.
GTM has manufactured solar panels for the SmallSat market since 2013, from 1U up to 12U solar panels, and in the past two years, the company has integrated more than 1,400 triple junction cells onto solar panels.
This, combined with GTM’s development of a Plug and Play substrate using industry-proven methods and products, creates a rapidly producible, highly reliable, cost-effective product, Sidus Space said.
GTM’s experience, combined with the selection of Azur Space, ensures the efficiency and longevity of power collection which is vital to accommodating basic operations and supporting payloads throughout the orbital lifetimes, it added.
It also said Azur Space assemblies provide space solutions with a higher integration level. Based on their high-efficiency solar cells of the 28% or 30%-advanced class, the assemblies are additionally equipped with cover glasses and interconnectors.
Sidus Space is a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support.
Located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sidus operates from a 35,000-square-foot manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing facility focused on vertically integrated Space-as-a-Service solutions including end-to-end satellite support.
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