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FAQ: Ascent Solar's 2025 Space & Marine PV Achievements and 2026 Outlook
TL;DR
Ascent Solar's rapid six-to-eight-week delivery and partnerships with NASA and defense contractors provide a significant edge in the growing $6.8 billion space solar market.
Ascent Solar's CIGS thin-film PV technology works by being lightweight, flexible, and durable, performing in extreme environments and low light to power spacecraft and satellites.
Ascent Solar's technology enables longer, cheaper space missions and powers ocean monitoring, advancing scientific discovery and sustainable exploration for a better future.
Ascent Solar's panels can be powered by beamed energy from space, allowing spacecraft to travel farther with fewer parts and less equipment.
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) is a company that manufactures featherweight, flexible, and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, primarily used in extreme environments like space and aquatic applications.
In 2025, Ascent Solar expanded into the space market by partnering with organizations like NASA and NOVI Space Inc., providing PV array blankets for satellites and developing technology for beamed power reception, while also testing PV functionality for ocean monitoring applications.
Customers choose Ascent's solar panels because they perform well in extreme environments and low light conditions, are lightweight and bendable, and Ascent can deliver them much faster (6-8 weeks) than the industry standard (9-12 months).
Ascent's PV array blankets are being used by NOVI Space for AI-powered satellites to deliver real-time Earth Observation insights, and with NASA to develop technology that receives beamed power from satellites via microwave or laser beams to power spacecraft.
Spacecraft using Ascent's PV technology can go further for longer periods, are lighter and cheaper to make due to fewer parts and less equipment needed for power, and the flexible panels work well in extreme space environments.
Ascent has partnered with CisLunar Industries to develop long-lasting power solutions for space missions and with Defiant Space Corp., targeting a space-based solar power market projected to reach $6.8 billion by 2040.
An ocean monitoring company is testing Ascent Solar's PV functionality and durability in aquatic terrestrial applications to enable persistent operation of ocean-based monitoring technologies.
Ascent's key differentiators are its ability to deliver solar arrays in 6-8 weeks (much faster than the industry's 9-12 months) and its flexible, durable CIGS thin-film PV technology that performs well in extreme environments.
Ascent expects to be busy in 2026, with its 2025 achievements positioning the company for strength, including NOVI Space's AI edge processing constellation launching in early 2026 and continued expansion in space and marine markets.
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