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From deep in (Pumpkin) space ...

Pumpkin makes the pages of Ars Technica ... indirectly.

8/20/2024

 
Ars Technica released an article today on AstroForge, the asteroid mining startup company in Seal Beach, California. Pumpkin supplied the power system (EPSM1), batteries (BM2), solar array drive assembly (DASA) and solar array (a new version of its triple-folder) for the Odin spacecraft AstroForge will use for their second mission. The Odin spacecraft passed vibe, and is now undergoing additional testing.
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AstroForge needed a more power than Pumpkin's standard 135W array can deliver. The 135W solar array is a dual triple-folder, with each three-panel array independently articulated, and is designed to fit 12U spacecraft within tabbed dispensers. For Odin, Pumpkin expanded the array configuration from 2x (3x 7S3P) to 2x (2x 10S3P + 1x 8S3P) in order to raise its power and provide hard points for the PRMs that Odin uses. Pumpkin's DASA-based deployable array system has proven to be highly adaptable to different spacecraft configurations.

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