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Ascent’s Lightweight Thin-Film Solar Selected for Further Evaluation for Deep Space Missions

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is examining technology for an upcoming mission to Jupiter.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. announced that the company was selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part of its next round of evaluations for providing solar technology for an upcoming mission to Jupiter, as well as to address additional missions.   This decision followed an earlier round of investigation with promising results, during which the company’s flexible, monolithically integrated copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar module was subjected to environmenta...

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