Redwire Corporation announced that two 5-kW Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) have successfully deployed and are operating nominally in geosynchronous orbit on the Maxar Space Systems-built Ovzon 3 communications satellite, which successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on January 3, 2024. Ovzon 3 represents the first-ever integration of Redwire?s ROSA technology with a commercial satellite following years of successful operations on the International Space Station (ISS) and on NASA?s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. As the first commercial integration of Redwire?s ROSA technology, the two solar array wings for the Ovzon 3 satellite extend ROSA?s successful heritage, including the six currently installed and successfully operating ROSAs on the ISS and the two wings used on NASA?s DART mission.

In June 2023, Redwireannounced a follow-on contract to build two additional ROSAs for the ISS. ROSA?s groundbreaking design is also being used to supply power for the Maxar-built Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), which will be part of the first segment of the NASA-led lunar Gateway planned to launch late next year. The PPE will be powered by a pair of 37-kW ROSA wings, some of the most powerful spacecraft solar arrays ever built.