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NASA Funds Research into Improved Deep Space Solar Panels
Technicians test the deployment of a massive solar array that will power future NASA spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin)

Technicians test the deployment of a massive solar array that will power future NASA spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin)

WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected four proposals to develop solar array technologies that will aid spacecraft in exploring destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. One of these proposals is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

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