Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.

🚨News alert!🚨 Ascent is honored to be included in today's The Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Combining Solar Power With Farming Is Getting Easier. Developers Are Wary of Added Costs" "Thornton, Colo.-based company Ascent Solar Technologies manufactures flexible solar panels that cost three or four times more per watt than traditional PV panels... ...'They pay you to grow crops and they give you subsidies to grow #solar, which, if you actually do agrivoltaics, it’s a win-win,' Ascent CEO Paul Warley said." “I’m probably going to have to go open up an office in Europe,” Warley said. https://lnkd.in/eMzDWYPF #solarpower #solarenergy #agrivoltaics

#HappyThanksgiving from the team at Ascent!

Did you know that Ascent Solar is the only #solar manufacturer producing thin-film modules that are durable, flexible, lightweight, and deliver Specific Power no other thin-film provider can match? 💡 This begins with Ascent's Monolithic Integration (MI), the patented #manufacturing process of our solar cells, provides physical durability and reduces overall cell and system part count resulting in higher performance and reduced risk. MI enables modules and arrays to have a specific footprint and power output with custom options for voltage and current ⚡ Simply put, Ascent's solar technology will not crack or shatter upon impact and continues to operate if damaged and in cloudy or overcast conditions 💪 Read more here👇 https://lnkd.in/e-qxV9xh #solarmanufacturing 🇺🇸

A thorough read on #spacesolar / #spacebeaming from Cipher News that details the main reason why the concept (which has been around for decades) is now garnering so much attention: "'The cost of launching a rocket and the cost of making the necessary equipment have gone down by 99% over the last five to 10 years,' said John Mankins, who founded his own space-based solar company, Mankins Space Technology Inc, and leads a consultancy in the field. Mankins credited SpaceX’s reusable Falcon rocket for this cost drop “revolution,” adding that Falcon’s successor under development, the #Starship, promises to lower costs further." #solarenergy #solarpower #spacetech #cleanenergy https://lnkd.in/eXmAmZcC

This article details the problem #spacedebris poses to astronauts and spacecraft in Earth's orbit. Also included in the article is a photo of damaged solar arrays on Mir’s Spektr module following a collision with an unmanned Progress spacecraft in September 1997 ( 📷 : NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration) By contrast, Ascent Solar's robust arrays reliably provide power, even if impacted by micrometeoroid or orbital debris (without creating more space debris). Read more at this 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ejJZPGw7 #spacetech #solarenergy

Congrats to FREYR Battery! Ascent Solar welcomes international brands adding US solar manufacturing to their portfolio 👏 The market trajectory for domestic (and global) solar is significant, and we are honored to contribute from our facility in Golden, CO 🇺🇸 Via Solar Power World: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gsvmTqCJ

🇺🇸 The entire team at Ascent Solar would like to thank those who served, including many of our colleagues and their families, many of which are listed in the below graphic! 🇺🇸 #VeteransDay

"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently pondered the idea of Starlink being offered with a #solar + #battery kit. Such a setup would truly make it the most convenient device to access high-speed internet anytime, anywhere." 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g_vwRCZm #spacetech #solarenergy #renewables

ICYMI, last week NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration began deploying new solar array tech demos on its #Pathfinder #Spacecraft Per their article: "Small spacecraft on deep space missions require more electrical power than what is currently offered by existing technology. The four-petal solar array of LISA-T is a thin-film solar array that offers lower mass, lower stowed volume, and three times more power per mass and volume allocation than current solar arrays. The in-orbit technology demonstration includes deployment, operation, and environmental survivability of the thin-film solar array. " 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ezGFzVX8

The #space #solar power project, announced on Oct. 21, is a partnership between U.K.-based Space Solar, Reykjavik Energy and Icelandic sustainability initiative Transition Labs 🤝 It intends to launch a demonstrator satellite by 2030, which will beam to Earth 30 megawatts of #cleanenergy — enough to power about 3,000 homes ☀️ 🛰️ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dGPDWjS4 Via Space.com