Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (ASTI)

[Khale]

Meanwhile, I am yet to be convinced that the solar arrays on the Lockheed Martin's LM2100 satellite are not from Ascent Solar (in spite of what the critics say). Did anyone bother to connect the dots between Ascent’s December 4 news release about JAXA, and Lockheed Martin's October news about LM2100. …The panels supplied to JAXA are 0.001 inches thick which is half the thickness of Ascent’s standard product. It means Ascent standard panels are 0.002 inches thick. Viola, the panels on LM2100 are 0.002 inches thick. Do we know of any other company that has the patent to produce panels that are 0.002 inches thick on polyimide substrate? Please convince me that this is not another one of those activities going on behind the scene.

On Lockheed Martin's LM2100 news
optics.org/news/8/10/7

…In raw numbers, the MMA’s compact flexible array design delivers 50 percent more power than previous rigid array designs at a 30 percent lower mass.
…Typical rigid panels range from 0.75 to 1.5 in (18 to 36 mm) thick, but the MM Array’s synthetic polymer material is just 0.002 inches (0.05 mm) thick, a significant reduction.

...Lockheed Martin has leveraged expertise from across Space Systems to contribute to the design.


Ascent’s Superlight Thin-Film Solar Selected for Jupiter Deployment Demonstration by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Dec 04, 2017

…In this most recent purchase, JAXA placed the entire order, comprising of small area test cells and large, 19.5cm x 30cm monolithically-integrated modules, all on a very thin, 25 micron (0.001 inch) plastic substrate which is half the thickness of Ascent’s production substrate for standard product.