The wings will be integrated with Moog’s Meteor satellite bus in support of a low-Earth orbit mission for an undisclosed national security customer.
The contract is the first sale of Redwire’s ELSA high-performance, low-mass solar array product.
“ELSA brings together Redwire’s deep heritage and excellent solar array performance with a design optimised for volume production, enabling customers to field capable constellations faster and more efficiently,” said Redwire’s Space business segment president, Mike Gold.
“We are excited to work together with Moog to deliver reliable, robust and affordable power.”
In addition to the system design, manufacturing, testing and flight hardware delivery of ELSA wings for this contract, Redwire’s ELSA solar array wings have been baselined by Moog as a standard component of their Meteor ESPA-Grande satellite bus.
Meteor is all-orbit capable and available for use on a wide variety of missions and flight profiles, including pathfinder constellation missions and other disaggregated architectures.
“These solar arrays boost the adaptability of Moog’s satellite buses, allowing us to offer more flexible, modular solutions that directly support evolving customer missions,” Moog Space Vehicles general manager Bob McArthur said.
ELSA is designed for customers who need to minimise solar array stowed volume and mass while remaining competitive with conventional solar array performance and pricing.
Redwire is also manufacturing multiple arrays for Thales Alenia Space’s Space Inspire satellites and Blue Origin’s multi-orbit space mobility platform, Blue Ring.