“We are primarily focusing on utilizing the large investments in terrestrial solar for space, which has tremendous value for space,” said Peter Toth chief executive officer and co-founder of Extraterrestrial Power.
“Importantly, we are only utilizing technologies that allow high throughput manufacturing, which enables satellites being manufactured in high volumes necessary for low earth orbit (LEO) constellations,” he added.
The company first demonstrated its solar cells on Caltech’s space-based solar power experiment in 2023. This experiment made history by wirelessly transmitting power in space and beaming it to Earth for the first time.