MMA Lunar Flashlight HaWK Solar Arrays ready to launch

Another pair of MMA’s High Watts per Kilogram “HaWK” solar arrays are poised to launch for the moon. Anticipated to launch this November on a SpaceX Falcon9 from Cape Canaveral, Lunar Flashlight will be the first mission to use a four-laser reflectometer to look for water ice on the Moon.

“This is an exciting time for lunar exploration. The launch of Lunar Flashlight, along with the many small satellite missions aboard Artemis I (on which MMA HaWK solar arrays are powering 4 other missions!), may form the foundations for science discoveries as well as support future missions to the Moon’s surface,” said Roger Hunter, Small Spacecraft Technology program manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Learn more at NASA.gov.

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech