Redwire to supply solar sarray wings for the first Axiom station module
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has concluded a contract from Axiom Space to offer rollout-out Solar Array (Rosa) Wings for the Payload Power Thermal Module (AXPPTM), the first module of Axiom Station, the planned commercial orbital platform of the company.
“As the market leader for Space Power Solutions, Redwire is proud to be selected as a strategic supplier to deliver Rosas for the first space station module of Axiom Space,” said Mike Gold, Redwire President of Civil and International Space. “While NASA and the industry take the following steps to build commercial space stations to maintain American leadership in a job with a low earth, Redwire remains the partner that makes critical possibilities possible to ensure success on the orbit.”
AXPPTM is launched at the end of 2027 and initially attaches itself to the international space station before switching to an independent free flyer. The phased assembly plan of Axiom includes Habitat 1, an air lock, Habitat 2 and the research and production facility. By 2028, the Axiomestation could work as a two -module system and in 2030 will be expanding to four modules, which means that the American human presence in a low earth after retirement of the ISS.
The primary structure of AXPPTM, built by Thales Alenia room in Turin, Italy, reached a milestone with its last weld in July. Assembly and integration of Axiom Station modules will take place in Houston, so that they are built the first spacecraft in humans in the city.
“This contract with Redwire on the Roll-out Solar Array (Rosa) Wings is a crucial step in the direction of developing our first Axiom station module,” said Tejpaul Bhatia, CEO of Axiom Space. “Redwire’s decades of Space Heritage that develops advanced spacecraft technology will ultimately enable the global customers of Axiom Station to do research, to innovate, discover and scale for humanity.”
The ROSA arrays from Redwire have a flawless on-orbit record and are already of power missions such as the International Space Station, NASA’s double asteroid diversion test, the power and propulsion element of the Artemis Lunar Gateway and the Space Inspires Satellites from Thales Alenia Space.
