SolAero by Rocket Lab

We create world-class innovative solutions that are powering the new space race and the world's only vertically-integrated supplier of satellite solar panels.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

It's asteroid smashing time! Our recently acquired companies, SolAero and PSC, helped enable the DART mission by providing solar cells and the satellite dispenser from which DART was deployed.

We'll be watching NASA's live broadcast of this super exciting mission 🛰️

[SolAero by Rocket Lab @SolaeroTech]

SolAero will be participating in this years Lobo Cancer Challenge! You can support the team at the link below
https://t.co/q3s4xqoMlv

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

The NGG program is part of the latest evolution of the USSF’s missile warning system, following the Space Based Infrared System program, which was supported by our team at SolAero, the space solar power company we acquired in January 2022.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

We’re supplying space solar power for the @SpaceForceDoD’s new missile warning satellites, designed by @LMSpace. Learn more about our support for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit program. https://t.co/vVfmr4cgcK

[Peter Beck @Peter_J_Beck]

What do you tell your young son who covertly tried to make a rocket engine out of a can in the garage? By all accounts the explosion was significant. I went with, “check your nozzle diameter”

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

We’re powering up two heliophysics missions in 2025 - NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft and NOAA’s SWFO-L1, both manufactured by Ball Aerospace. Rocket Lab is no stranger to heliophysics missions, having previously powered the Parker Solar Probe and the Magnetosphere Multiscale mission.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

We’re powering another mission to study the Sun! We’ve been selected by @BallAerospace to build the solar array panel on @NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft. Read more: https://t.co/pNEyI1SVU0

[Firefly Aerospace @Firefly_Space]

🌕 Lunar Update: More hardware coming to fruition as our partner @SolaeroTech delivered the three flight solar panels that will support our Blue Ghost M1 landing on the Moon early 2024. Learn more about our @NASA sponsored mission. https://t.co/sKpqyLAmE9

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

COPIA has spread its wings!🛰️

This hardware from Astrix Astronautics was a hosted payload on the Kick Stage for #ThereAndBackAgain.
The inflatable solar arrays successfully unfurled, demonstrating a key step in scalable and affordable power generation in space.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Congrats to the team at @Firefly_Space on this exciting mission milestone! We're thrilled to be supporting Blue Ghost with GNC and spacecraft software via our Colorado-based team🌑

[SolAero by Rocket Lab @SolaeroTech]

Light that candle! 🚀

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Onward to launch! We completed a successful rehearsal for our next mission with @SpaceflightInc & @BlackSky_Inc. Now targeting April 02 for launch to avoid bad weather.

Window opens:
🚀UTC | 12:10, April 02
🚀NZDT | 01:10, April 03
🚀EDT | 08:10, April 02
🚀PDT | 05:10, April 02

[SolAero by Rocket Lab @SolaeroTech]

21 and counting, Let’s go #Ingenuity!

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

#MarsHelicopter can’t be stopped! Ingenuity successfully completed its 21st flight on the Red Planet. The small rotorcraft traveled 370 meters at a speed of 3.85 meters per second and stayed aloft for 129.2 seconds. https://t.co/TNCdXWcKWE

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

The team @NASAJPL putting our solar panels by @SolaeroTech to the test! In August these arrays are headed to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to support the study of the asteroid Psyche. https://t.co/KIvFrn1qeo

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Our solar panels are getting ready to power @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its 2.4 billion km journey to a mysterious, metal-rich asteroid! Check out the arrays being tested at @NASAJPL ahead of the August mission. https://t.co/n8BYg1TRKo #MissionToPsyche

[Peter Beck @Peter_J_Beck]

Conversion efficiency of ~33.3% in volume production. Sucking up those photons real good.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Introducing our highest efficiency & lightest weight solar cell yet: the IMM-β. Developed by @Solaerotech, IMM-β is more than 40% lighter than typical space grade solar cells & delivers the highest efficiency of any commercial space solar cell globally. https://t.co/PHJwIWJqb6

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

#MissionToPsyche is prepping for its 1.5 billion-mile journey to explore a mysterious asteroid of the same name. In February, twin solar arrays were attached to the spacecraft’s body, unfolded to their 37-foot lengths & re-stowed as testing continues. https://t.co/vtqSQopxQ0

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Tomorrow 34 more @OneWeb satellites are headed to space! These will join almost 400 other OneWeb sats already on orbit, all powered by solar panels created by our team at @SolaeroTech. #MoreThanJustRocketsInThisLab

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

It's official! Our transaction to acquire @SolaeroTech has successfully closed, adding the biggest production line of space solar cells in the world to our space systems business. Welcome to the team, SolAero.
More: https://t.co/1XJC8uRfrv

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

The @NASAWebb space telescope is the 1,002nd satellite powered by @SolAeroTech! SolAero supplied the high-efficiency triple-junction solar cells to @northropgrumman for integration into solar panels & solar arrays to power the Webb spacecraft.