Solar Array Drive
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Honeybee Robotics’ expertise in compact, high precision, and high accuracy positioning systems for demanding spaceflight and scientific applications makes all the difference when tailoring a Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA) system to your specific mission. Our single-axis SADA is based on Honeybee’s heritage in flight-qualified solar array gimbals and other precision positioning devices for spacecraft, including a bi-axial solar array drive for AFRL’s Deployable Structures Experiment (DSX) and MSL 2009’s Sample Manipulation System (SMS). Honeybee can offer very competitive pricing for custom SADA systems through a modular design approach. Contact us to discuss options for your application.
Honeybee SADAs incorporate brushless or stepper motors, harmonic drives and/or planetary gearboxes, output resolvers or potentiometers, twist capsules or slip rings, and spaceflight-optimized material selections.
Other Applications
- Pointing Mechanisms
- Positioning and Deployment Drives
- Gimbals