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accession: "0001553350-25-000076"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASTI"
cik: "0001350102"
company_name: "Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T15:37:11.992292+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ascent Solar announces NASA beamed-power CAN and defense teaming agreement

## Summary
- 12-month CAN with NASA Marshall and Glenn to develop CIGS PV modules for beamed power; goal to convert 10x more power from energy-dense light beams.
- Teaming agreement to supply thin-film solar to US-based defense contractor for orbital applications; deliveries in 6–8 weeks.
- NASA bench-tested Ascent's COTS CIGS modules in 2024; Psyche mission validated deep-space laser beaming over 19 million miles.
- Ascent's 5MW Thornton, CO facility enables rapid 6–8 week deliveries; earlier spaceflight hardware orders on schedule for summer delivery.
- CAN targets lunar night survival and PSROs; could reduce lander downmass costs from 6–7 figures per kg to tens of millions savings per lander.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001553350-25-000076
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASTI
- cik: 0001350102
- company_name: Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1350102/000155335025000076/0001553350-25-000076-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1350102/000155335025000076/asti_8k.htm

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