Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (ASTI)

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HUGE ASTI space news...Details below...
The reasons I bought back into ASTI.

1. The Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and anTenna: 3rd Generation Advancements, and Beyond
-p30 Table 6 - shows that Ascent Solar’s CIGS with CORIN coating has proven to have the best 6-month ISS Power Retention
CIGs (from ASTI) last better in space than other products.

2. Solar Cruiser Technology Maturation Plans
-pp31 "The commercial source of the required LISA panels is Ascent Solar Technology, Inc. (AST)."
-pp35 Table 10 - Ascent Solar is scheduled to deliver panels for the next phase of Solar Cruiser during Q1 of 2021.
ASTI is delivering product THIS QTR, which explains why they have production jobs posted on Indeed.

3.NASA Selects Heliophysics Missions of Opportunity for Space Science Research and Technology Demonstration
…Solar Cruiser is HUGE and was selected as the technology demonstration mission. Consisting of a nearly 18,000-square-foot (nearly 1,700-square-meter) solar sail, it will demonstrate the ability to use solar radiation as a propulsion system. Such a system could provide access to new orbits enabling high-value science, including SmallSat observations from deep space, out of the ecliptic plane, and in stationary orbits in the Earth's geo-tail. Solar Cruiser will demonstrate one such orbit, where a spacecraft maintains position along the Earth-Sun line at a point closer to the Sun than L1. By positioning a monitoring spacecraft closer to the Sun, space weather scientists hope to obtain more advanced warnings of solar storms headed to Earth.