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Sparkwing will visit the Space Tech Expo Europe 2023 on the 15th and 16th of November. See you there!

Do you need power for your small satellite? Niels, our product engineer, will be at the 35th Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah between the 5th and 10th of August.

During the maiden flight of Sparkwing, the panels successfully deployed shortly after launch and then proved to perform as expected.

Learn more about how the Sparkwing philosophy #SpaceMadeEasy is embedded in the Installation Manual!

An additional six of Sparkwing solar panels have been selected by Aerospacelab to accommodate their ramp up towards higher satellite production volumes.

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First Sparkwing structural model with laser-cut dummy cells delivered to Aerospacelab.

During the Smallsat.org 2021 conference Marloes and Dieter of the Sparkwing team will present on "Towards Zero Tests on Smallsat Solar Panels".

Leiden, the Netherlands, 20 July, 2021 – Today, Airbus announced that its Sparkwing solar panels were selected by USA-based Masten Space Systems for their XL-1 lunar lander. In 2023, the XL-1 spacecraft will land at the lunar South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. XL-1 will be equipped with six body-mounted Sparkwing solar panels, to be delivered next year, to charge the vehicle’s power system during transition to the Moon as well as during operations on the Moon’s surface.