Redwire Selected for $12.9 Million NASA Award to Develop Trailblazing Systems to Build Landing Pads, Roads, and other Forms of Infrastructure on the Moon
25 Julho 2023 - 4:50PM
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Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, has been
selected for a $12.9 million NASA Tipping Point award to prototype
a first-of-its-kind manufacturing technology intended to build
critical infrastructure on the surface of the Moon, including
landing pads, roads and foundations for habitats. This technology
could enable robust construction on the lunar surface to advance
human and robotic operations, paving the way for a sustainable
human presence and a dynamic lunar economy.
“Lunar sustainability is at the very heart of the Artemis
program. Developing the technology to create infrastructure on the
Moon to support landing, habitation, and commercial operations will
enable the robust future that America and its international
partners are creating,” said Redwire Executive Vice President John
Vellinger. “We are very excited to leverage Redwire’s decades of
flight heritage and experience on the International Space Station,
providing the vision technology for Orion and numerous other
systems, to literally build the foundation of a new era in lunar
space exploration and utilization.”
By using local materials to build infrastructure, this new
technology would reduce the cost of sending construction materials
to the Moon. Redwire’s cutting-edge manufacturing technology will
use a microwave emitter to heat and solidify regolith (lunar dust
and crushed rock) to construct landing pads, roads, foundations,
and dust mitigation surfaces. The technology will be scalable to
lunar rovers, vehicles, and robotic arms.
Redwire is leading a team of industry and academic partners to
develop this capability, including Astrobotic, Lockheed Martin
Space, Lambda Technologies, Colorado School of Mines, and the
University of Central Florida. Redwire will leverage its extensive
in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing experience, which
is being used to develop in-situ resource utilization capabilities
and space infrastructure technology for use on the surface of the
Moon, Mars, and beyond. Earlier this year, Redwire announced that
it is providing its Roll-Out Solar Array technology for
Astrobotic’s Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology program to
deliver power on the lunar surface.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a global leader in mission
critical space solutions and high reliability components for the
next generation space economy, with valuable intellectual property
for solar power generation, in-space 3D printing and manufacturing,
avionics, critical components, sensors, digital engineering and
space-based biotechnology. We combine decades of flight heritage
with an agile and innovative culture. Our “Heritage plus
Innovation” strategy enables us to combine proven performance with
new, innovative capabilities to provide our customers with the
building blocks for the present and future of space infrastructure.
For more information, please visit redwirespace.com.
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