Products — Panel arrays
ONE PANEL
EVERY CONFIGURATION
Custom arrays add months of design and qualification. We engineered one panel for production instead. Each panel delivers 183 W. Body-mount one for a fixed array, or hinge up to five into a deployable wing for 915 W. You specify panel count, HDRM type, stringing, and whether you need a yoke. The panel, hinge, and harnessing stay the same. Tooling and qualification are already done. Standard configurations ship on production lead times with no NRE. Customization is quoted separately.
184W
Per panel, BOL 25 °C
1-5
Panels per wing
40W/kg
Wing-level specific power
<6mo
Standard lead time
Configurations
One panel, six ways to fly it.
Every configuration uses the same 183 W composite honeycomb panel and the same spacecraft interface. Pick the power you need; the mechanical and electrical interfaces do not change.
Power at beginning of life, 25 °C, 1367 W/m² average irradiation. Two- and three-panel wings are characterized; four- and five-panel wings scale from the same panel and hinge set; contact us for analysis at your temperatures, lifetime, and radiation dose.
Key performance parameters
Qualified once.Flown repeatedly.
Add-on mass covers hinges, harnessing, and fasteners.
Two panel wing: 360 W, 9.1 kg, same modal targets.
Designed to pass SpaceX Rideshare environmental certification on a typical spacecraft.
Architecture
Proven Design. Stocked Components. Fast Delivery.
Composite face sheet honeycomb panels carry our MOD-0015 Mini modules. Two hinge interfaces and four HDRM kinematic interfaces tie the wing to the bus, with face mount or top mount options on the hinge brackets. Nothing in the stack is bespoke.
Two-ply composite facesheets over perforated aluminum core, bonded aluminum inserts, perforated Kapton edge closeout.
High torque, adjustable deployment angles, redundant strain energy and redundant sliding surfaces. 180° root option.
Four-point attachment through cup / cone interfaces preloads the wing to the bus. A bolt extractor retracts the restraint bolt on HDRM actuation. Popular HDRMs have been benchmarked.
Frontside Kapton and copper flex at string level; backside high-temperature round wire at panel level, routed to cancel magnetic moment.
Electrical
4S1P strings, scaled by count
Each panel carries three 4S1P strings with four modules in series. There are primary and redundant leads on every string. Panel power is string Pmp × 3; wing power is string Pmp × 9 on the three panel wing. Voltage stays constant as you add panels, so power system components size once.
A bleed resistor is included as part of the C2M8 grounding plan. Module bypass diodes are not used or required: the shingled PV architecture provides numerous current paths through each module. Blocking diodes are not included with the standard wing and harnessing however some spacecraft require them to prevent discharging batteries into the PV during eclipse.
Preliminary, per 4S1P string. EOL case includes 17.7% radiation and 5.2% UV loss. Full IV curves available on request.
Deployment
Undamped and un-sequenced — the actual deployment path can vary. Final deployed configuration can also use 180° rotation at the root hinge.
Ordering
Flight configurations
C2M8 wing, without bolt extractors.
C2M8 wing with GlenAir 061-005 bolt extractor.
C2M8 wing with Arquimea REAC.153.V2.SD bolt extractor.
Undamped and un-sequenced — the actual deployment path can vary. Final deployed configuration can also use 180° rotation at the root hinge.
Pick your panel count.
Send us your power budget, orbit, and bus interface. We reply with a configuration, a mass and power estimate, and a price.
