Artist’s rendition of SAR-Lupe spacecraft. Photo: OHB.

OHB System AG has awarded two contracts to SolAero Technologies for the design, manufacture and testing of solar array panels for two upcoming satellite missions, SARah and Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP). SARah is a follow-on system to the Federal Republic of Germany’s SAR-Lupe that provides satellite-based radar reconnaissance. EnMAP is a German hyperspectral Earth Observation (EO) satellite to measure and model key dynamic processes of the Earth’s ecosystems on a global scale.

Alliance Spacesystems, a subsidiary of SolAero, will design and manufacture the solar array, and SolAero will design and produce the solar array panels. SolAero’s Third Generation Triple-Junction (ZTJ) solar cells will populate the panels.