DEPLOYABLE SPACE SYSTEMS, INC. (DSS) WILL FOCUS THE PROPOSED NASA PHASE 1 PROGRAM ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND VA…

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DEPLOYABLE SPACE SYSTEMS, INC. (DSS) WILL FOCUS THE PROPOSED NASA PHASE 1 PROGRAM ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ROSA-MAX, A SIGNIFICANTLY STRUCTURALLY/ELECTRICALLY OPTIMIZED VERSION OF THE BASIC ROSA SOLAR ARRAY TECHNOLOGY WITH ADVANCED ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES AND IMM PHOTOVOLTAICS. THE COMBINED EMBODIMENT WITH ADVANCED ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES AND IMM PHOTOVOLTAICS OFFERS MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE IN ALL KEY METRICS AND UNPARALLELED AFFORDABILITY FOR NASA SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS. ROSA-MAX WILL ENABLE EMERGING SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION (SEP) SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS THROUGH ITS ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT, ULTRA-COMPACT STOWAGE VOLUME, ULTRA-AFFORDABILITY, HIGH STRENGTH/STIFFNESS, AND ITS HIGH VOLTAGE AND HIGH/LOW TEMPERATURE&ILLUMINATION OPERATION CAPABILITY WITHIN MANY ENVIRONMENTS. THE ROSA-MAX TECHNOLOGY WILL PROVIDE NASA/INDUSTRY A NEAR-TERM AND LOW-RISK SOLAR ARRAY SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES REVOLUTIONARY PERFORMANCE IN TERMS OF HIGH SPECIFIC POWER (>300-500 W/KG BOL AT THE WING LEVEL, PV-BLANKET DEPENDENT), AFFORDABILITY (>50% PROJECTED COST SAVINGS AT THE ARRAY LEVEL, PV-BLANKET DEPENDENT), ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH DEPLOYED STIFFNESS (10X BETTER THAN CURRENT RIGID PANEL ARRAYS), HIGH DEPLOYED STRENGTH (10X BETTER THAN CURRENT RIGID PANEL ARRAYS), COMPACT STOWAGE VOLUME (>60-80 KW/M3 BOL, 10X TIMES BETTER THAN CURRENT RIGID PANEL ARRAYS), HIGH DEPLOYMENT RELIABILITY AND OPERATION RELIABILITY, HIGH RADIATION TOLERANCE, HIGH VOLTAGE OPERATION CAPABILITY (>200 VDC), SCALABILITY (500W TO 100'S OF KW), AND LILT&HIHT OPERATION CAPABILITY (LILT LOW INTENSITY LOW TEMPERATURE, HIHT HIGH INTENSITY HIGH TEMPERATURE).