Space vehicles
Saft has developed a range of space batteries to power the wide variety of different vehicles, spacecraft, robots, rovers and probes – deployed mainly on exploration missions to the Moon, Mars, comets and galaxies.
Saft space batteries also feature in cargo vehicles, such as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), used to supply various equipment and materials to the International Space Station (ISS).
As the number of long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars and other planets increases, there is a growing demand for high-energy, long-life batteries that provide total reliability. Saft offers a range of battery technologies that enable customers to specify a space vehicle battery to suit their exact mission requirements. These include:
Saft batteries are spaceflight-proven on missions such as: ATV, Jules Verne, Rosetta, Smart-1.