[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[Missions]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> GLIDE ## Mission Details **Customer:** [[NASA]], [[Ball Aerospace]] In 2022, Rocket Lab was selected by [[Ball Aerospace]] to manufacture the [[Substrates & Panels|Solar Array Panel (SAP)]] to power NASA’s Global Lyman-Alpha Imager of Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) spacecraft. GLIDE is a [heliophysics](https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/) mission intended to study variability in Earth’s atmosphere and is expected to launch in 2025. The SAP will utilize [[SolAero Technologies]] by Rocket Lab’s high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, quadruple-junction [[Z4J solar cell]]s, laid down on carbon composite facesheet panels manufactured at the company’s facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rocket Lab has provided power to multiple spacecraft as part of NASA’s Heliophysics Division missions including the Parker Solar Probe, the first-ever mission to “touch” the Sun that launched in 2018, and the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a robotic space mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere that launched in 2015. https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/upcoming-missions/nasa-glide/ ![[Pasted image 20250112144616.jpg]] ## News %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(mission, [[GLIDE]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | | [[News/Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace to Power NASA’s GLIDE Spacecraft.md\|Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace to Power NASA’s GLIDE Spacecraft]] | June 09, 2022 | %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%