{"id":83229,"date":"2018-10-02T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacexs-starlink-satellites-may-use-unique-solar-array-deployment-mechanism"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:43:03","slug":"spacexs-starlink-satellites-may-use-unique-solar-array-deployment-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacexs-starlink-satellites-may-use-unique-solar-array-deployment-mechanism","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites may use unique solar array deployment mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRXbi3sQKWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spotted on an official SpaceX T-shirt commemorating Starlink\u2019s first two prototype satellites and corroborated through analysis of limited public photos of the spacecraft, SpaceX appears to be testing a relatively unique style of solar arrays on the first two satellites launched into orbit, known as Tintin A (Alice) and B (Bob).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to judge anything concrete from the nature of what may be immature prototypes, but SpaceX\u2019s decision to take a major step away from its own style of solar expertise \u2013 Cargo Dragon\u2019s traditional rigid panel arrays \u2013 is almost certainly motivated by a need to push beyond the current state of the art of satellite design and production.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starlink-satellite-prototypes-unique-solar-arrays\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starlink-satellite-prototyp...ar-arrays\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on an official SpaceX T-shirt commemorating Starlink\u2019s first two prototype satellites and corroborated through analysis of limited public photos of the spacecraft, SpaceX appears to be testing a relatively unique style of solar arrays on the first two satellites launched into orbit, known as Tintin A (Alice) and B (Bob). It\u2019s difficult to judge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}