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Ascent Solar Technologies Provides Corporate Update Detailing Customer Pipeline and Revenue Potential

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Friday, March 8, 2024

THORNTON, Colo., March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies , (Nasdaq: ASTI) (“Ascent'' or the “Company”), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacture of featherweight, flexible, and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today published a corporate update detailing its customer and revenue potential, as well as its strategy to meet growth opportunities in its two primary customer verticals of aerospace and agrivoltatics.

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  • THORNTON, Colo., March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies , (Nasdaq: ASTI) (“Ascent'' or the “Company”), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacture of featherweight, flexible, and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today published a corporate update detailing its customer and revenue potential, as well as its strategy to meet growth opportunities in its two primary customer verticals of aerospace and agrivoltatics.
  • The published report can be found here .
  • Further, the Company anticipates 2025 revenue reaching $50 million to $80 million.
  • These figures are estimated based on current customer discussions and testing coupled with a rapidly growing market opportunity in aerospace and photovoltaics, and does not reflect revenue under contract.

Ascent Solar Technologies to Fly Space Solar Modules on NASA’s Upcoming LISA-T Mission

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Monday, February 26, 2024

The mission, led by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, will demonstrate the capability to deploy large-area arrays on lightweight, low-cost and small spacecraft.

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  • The mission, led by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, will demonstrate the capability to deploy large-area arrays on lightweight, low-cost and small spacecraft.
  • LISA-T is the fourth mission in NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD) series of missions evaluating novel, small spacecraft capabilities on orbit.
  • “Selection for this upcoming space mission is the culmination of years of Ascent’s work with NASA to optimize the PV modules that enabled LISA-T’s ambitious spacecraft mass and power budgets to close,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.
  • Additional Ascent modules with lower-cost and lighter-weight laminates are being evaluated on the upcoming MISSE payload slated to fly on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Mission to the space station scheduled for March.

Ascent Solar Technologies Adds Former SpaceX Founder Philippe Kassouf as Strategic Advisor

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

THORNTON, Colo., Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the appointment of former founding member of SpaceX Philippe Kassouf to the Company’s Strategic Advisory Board in the role of Strategic Advisor.

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  • THORNTON, Colo., Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the appointment of former founding member of SpaceX Philippe Kassouf to the Company’s Strategic Advisory Board in the role of Strategic Advisor.
  • In addition to his advisory role at Ascent, Kassouf currently serves as the Founder and CEO of QED Engineering Inc. , a startup aimed at new product development for the space and military aerospace markets.
  • Kassouf joins Ascent’s Strategic Advisory board on the heels of its founding and addition of its inaugural member , Major General Casey Blake, in January.
  • “Philippe has a very prominent background in space and aerospace technology, and as a founding member of SpaceX, possesses deep industry relationships and experience in scaling commercial space technologies,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Acid attacks appear to be on the rise – what the numbers tell us about corrosive substances and crime

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

On January 31, Abdul Ezedi allegedly decanted a corrosive substance over a mother and her two children.

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  • On January 31, Abdul Ezedi allegedly decanted a corrosive substance over a mother and her two children.
  • Thankfully, the injuries sustained by the victims were not life threatening, but the mother’s were described as “potentially life changing”.

How many acid attacks are there?

  • However, this has since gone up again, with 710 attacks reported in 2022 (an increase of 70%).
  • My research with colleagues into the motivations of acid offenders shows that attacks in countries including India, Bangladesh and Colombia are commonly misogynistic attacks by men against women.
  • As is often the case with crime statistics, data on the number of acid attacks is patchy.
  • Our research observed that in 455 cases of crimes involving acid, 15% were genuinely acid attacks but 32% actually involved household products such as bleach.
  • The research found that acid was most likely to be used against a criminal rival, while household products were most likely to be used against a partner.

What is being done to prevent acid attacks?

  • During the spike in acid attacks in 2017, convicted offenders were given heavy sentences, as a deterrent to others.
  • The government’s serious violence strategy, published in 2018, placed a priority on acid attacks, and called for a public health approach to tackle serious violence.
  • Thankfully, serious acid attacks like the one in Clapham are rare, though attacks where less serious injuries occur are more common.


Matt Hopkins receives funding from Home Office. I received a Home Office grant to study this in 2018 (which ended in 2020).

Ascent Solar Begins Advocacy Outreach to Brief Private Sector Space Activities Interagency Steering Group Members on Advantages of Thin-Film Solar PV in Space

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The Group is tasked with creating an authorization and supervision framework for novel space activities.

Key Points: 
  • The Group is tasked with creating an authorization and supervision framework for novel space activities.
  • Within its mission statement , the framework states its intent to collaborate with members of the commercial space industry to advance national objectives.
  • These subsystems are a primary driver in conjunction event probabilities and consequence, two areas where Ascent’s thin-film technology can have major efficiency and cost benefits.
  • “Ascent is a leader in the proliferation of thin-film solar modules in space environments, and we look forward to detailing our industry expertise to the Group,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. Establishes Strategic Advisory Board, Adds Major General Casey Blake as Inaugural Member

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

THORNTON, Colo., Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (“Ascent,” “Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced it has established a Strategic Advisory Board with the addition of its inaugural member, Major General Casey Blake, in the title of Strategic Advisor.

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  • THORNTON, Colo., Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (“Ascent,” “Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced it has established a Strategic Advisory Board with the addition of its inaugural member, Major General Casey Blake, in the title of Strategic Advisor.
  • General Blake joins Ascent after an expansive career with the United States Air Force.
  • Most recently, General Blake served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, in Washington, D.C.
  • “The establishment of the Strategic Advisory Board is a pivotal development for Ascent, and General Blake is the ideal individual to get it started,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. Announces Letter of Intent to Supply Yearly Solar Array Orders to a Private Company Starting in 2027

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Ascent plans to continue increasing the conversion efficiencies of its products in order to deliver superior value to this potential customer and others.

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  • Ascent plans to continue increasing the conversion efficiencies of its products in order to deliver superior value to this potential customer and others.
  • Ascent’s Space HDK line of products are built with Titan modules , the company’s standard modular building block producing over 2kW of power per kilogram on-orbit and will be available for 2024 customer deliveries.
  • The enhanced modules for this customer will be modified to enable solar arrays to reliably generate more power for longer.
  • “Ascent already manufactures some of the lightest PV products on the market, all of which are an order of magnitude lighter than silicon alternatives, the primary competition for space solar,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. Achieves Spaceflight Heritage for its Space Solar PV Array Products on Momentus’ Vigoride-6 Mission

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

The assembly flown was composed of ASTI’s Plug & Fly™ solar panels, consisting of thin-film modules that were integrated into Momentus’s Tape Spring Solar Array (TASSA), which recently completed initial in-space testing.

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  • The assembly flown was composed of ASTI’s Plug & Fly™ solar panels, consisting of thin-film modules that were integrated into Momentus’s Tape Spring Solar Array (TASSA), which recently completed initial in-space testing.
  • The Company is continuing to focus its next generation of higher efficiency lightweight products optimized for the orbital environment.
  • “This demonstration validates Ascent as a leader in space sustainability, and is reflective of the tremendous market opportunity we continue to pursue,” says Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.
  • Ascent’s Space HDK line of products are engineered to be resilient enough that if impacted and penetrated by space debris, the array can continue to generate power while not creating additional debris.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. Completes First Delivery of New, Increased Efficiency Material for Lifecycle Performance Capabilities Testing in Space Environments

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Monday, December 18, 2023

This initial evaluation is the first in a campaign of ongoing high-fidelity lifecycle testing to simulate decades of continued operations in space, informing the Company’s iterative development paths to even higher efficiencies.

Key Points: 
  • This initial evaluation is the first in a campaign of ongoing high-fidelity lifecycle testing to simulate decades of continued operations in space, informing the Company’s iterative development paths to even higher efficiencies.
  • Customers have chosen to fly Ascent’s Plug & FlyTM arrays due to their requiring only a fraction of the mass and volume to produce the same power as alternatives.
  • These weight and volumetric efficiencies are further bolstered by Ascent’s recent efficiency breakthroughs, enabling spacecraft to fly with even less dead weight, and potentially even downsize to a smaller launch rideshare slot.
  • This forthcoming test campaign will also allow Ascent to further refine its products to be even more resilient and longer-lived in the space environment.

Ascent Solar Technologies CEO to Attend Spacepower Conference, Liaise with Prominent Space Technology Industry Leaders

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Monday, December 11, 2023

The conference highlights the latest, prominent updates from the space technology industry with its over 2,000 attendees spanning military leaders, private sector organizations, industry innovators, top-tier media personnel, and more.

Key Points: 
  • The conference highlights the latest, prominent updates from the space technology industry with its over 2,000 attendees spanning military leaders, private sector organizations, industry innovators, top-tier media personnel, and more.
  • Ascent’s attendance will enable the Company to liaise with these influential industry decision-makers and familiarize them with the latest, promising updates to Ascent’s thin-film solar technology, and its capability to thrive in a space environment.
  • “The Spacepower Conference is the ideal venue for Ascent to demonstrate the value propositions of its thin-film solar technology for on-orbit deployment, especially with respect to efficiency, durability and cost of production,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.
  • “As space technology continues to evolve, concern around the worsening issue of dangerous space debris is growing.