Summary
- Samara Aerospace won a SpaceWERX contract to develop an innovative approach to satellite pointing.
- The company’s technology, Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC), incorporates small piezoelectric actuators in the hinges of deployable solar panels to improve accuracy.
- MSAC promises active noise cancellation by inducing circular vibrations to stabilize the platform.
- Samara Aerospace is rapidly scaling and developing their first hummingbird technology demonstrator.