THORNTON, Colo., Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI) ("Ascent" or the "Company"), today announced the closing of its previously announced private placement for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 1,025,643 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), series A warrants to purchase up to 1,025,643 shares of common stock and short-term series B warrants to purchase up to 1,025,643 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $1.95 per share of common stock (or per pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) and accompanying warrants priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The series A warrants and the short-term series B warrants

THORNTON, Colo., Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI) ("Ascent" or the "Company"), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 1,025,643 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), series A warrants to purchase up to 1,025,643 shares of common stock and short-term series B warrants to purchase up to 1,025,643 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $1.95 per share of common stock (or per pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) and accompanying warrants in a private placement priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The series A warrants and the short-term serie

THORNTON, Colo., Dec. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced that it recently provided test modules of its thin-film PV technology to a leading space company. The modules are currently being tested on their ability to generate power for spacecraft in Cislunar space, the region of space between the Earth and the moon. Preliminary findings from these tests have shown promising results for the technology's capabilities. Reaching the moon requires significantly more energy than achieving low Earth orbit for space vehicles. As

THORNTON, Colo., Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the signing of a teaming agreement with NovaSpark Energy ("NovaSpark"), a pioneer in mobile hydrogen generation systems for fueling long-range drones and powering critical infrastructure. The agreement brings the two companies' technologies together to achieve mutually beneficial goals. It packages Ascent's lightweight thin-film PV with NovaSpark's mobile hydrogen generation systems, allowing customers to airdrop NovaSpark equipment into the battlefield or disast

THORNTON, Colo., Nov. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the signing of a teaming agreement with CisLunar Industries ("CisLunar"), a leader in developing advanced hardware and embedded control software for power conversion and conditioning. The agreement aims to bring each of the Colorado-based companies' technologies together to achieve mutually beneficial spaceflight goals that support their competitive positioning for current and future space missions with various U.S. space organizations including NASA, the Departm

THORNTON, Colo., Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:ASTI) ("Ascent" or the "Company"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced that it has delivered test samples of its thin-film PV technology to an ocean monitoring technology company, a developer of autonomous underwater vehicles capable of reaching anywhere in the ocean with a high degree of speed, endurance and sensing; and a cutting-edge power lasing company focused on advancing space and defense technologies. With these test deliveries, Ascent continues to push the limits of its solar technology in ext

THORNTON, Colo. and NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:ASTI) ("Ascent" or the "Company"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Defiant Space Corporation ("Defiant"), an emerging space company focused on scalable solutions for the defense and national security market. Through this partnership, the companies will pursue opportunities in the U.S. defense and national security sectors, combining Ascent's space-proven solar technology with Defiant's ability to develop and integrate mission-focused space solutions. The c

THORNTON, Colo., Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent" or the "Company"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the signing of a teaming agreement with Emtel Energy USA ("Emtel Energy"), a provider of graphene-based electrostatic long duration energy storage (ELDES). The agreement is intended to achieve mutually beneficial goals that would advance Emtel Energy's energy storage capabilities and aid the proliferation of thin-film PV solutions in space environments. Emtel Energy has developed a high-agility solid-state graphene battery alternative that circu

THORNTON, Colo., Aug. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent" or the "Company"), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Star Catcher Industries ("Star Catcher"), a company pioneering the first space energy grid, to achieve mutually beneficial goals that would aid the proliferation of thin-film PV solutions in space environments. Star Catcher is creating the first-of-its kind space-to-space power beaming service. By transmitting concentrated solar energy to clients' existing onboard solar arrays – with no retr

THORNTON, Colo., Aug. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:ASTI), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, continues to set precedence via its new standard for rapid delivery of space-mission enabling PV products. The Company has now delivered mission-optimized solar array blanket spaceflight hardware assemblies to multiple customers, each in under three weeks from order. The Plug & Fly™ integrated and encapsulated solar array blanket assemblies delivered were custom-designed to conform to each customer's requirements using Ascent's commercial-off-the-s

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THORNTON, Colo., Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies ("Ascent Solar" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the appointment of former founding member of SpaceX Philippe Kassouf to the Company's Strategic Advisory Board in the role of Strategic Advisor. In addition to his advisory role at Ascent, Kassouf currently serves as the Founder and CEO of QED Engineering Inc., a startup aimed at new product development for the space and military aerospace markets. Prior to joining Ascent, he held the position of CTO at Aitech Defense Systems, Inc., whe

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