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SkySentry Receives Lightweight Flexible CIGS Array from Ascent Solar Technologies

Aerostat is part of Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s High Altitude, Long-Endurance Testbed

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. announced that SkySentry, a high altitude vehicle developer headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, received their first flexible CIGS PV array for an upcoming aerostat test in Sandusky, OH, scheduled for mid-September 2009. The aerostat is part of Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s High Altitude, Long-Endurance Testbed. Charles Lambert, president and CEO of SkySentry, stated, “Power production and storage are the most difficult challenge of operating stat...

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