Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:00:05 +0000
Innovators in the field of space solar power are outperforming expectations for commercial application, motivated by the potential for harvesting solar energy on a 24/7 basis, unimpeded by weather or climate.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:35:40 +0000
The US startup Solestial is banking on ultra-thin, self-repairing silicon solar technology for an edge in the red hot space solar race.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:57:46 +0000
Space solar power once seemed like a far-out idea, but the high profile startup Aetherflux is among the stakeholders aiming to bring space-sourced solar energy down to Earth.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:11:35 +0000
The newly launched Florida startup Star Catcher Industries is launching a space solar network aimed at beaming solar energy from space to thousands of low earth orbiting satellites.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:25:53 +0000
Despite the obstacles, the dream of beaming solar power from space down to Earth has been gaining momentum and edging closer to reality.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:48:05 +0000
The US Space Force is working on an orbiting quantum antenna that could play a part in the race to develop space solar technology.
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Read moreCredit to Author: NASA| Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 07:53:43 +0000
Expedition 69 flight engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes. Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:45:26 +0000
Solar power from space is closer to reality after Caltech sent a prototype system into orbit on January 3 to test the technology.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:42:39 +0000
A newly launched prototype puts the US front and center in the space solar power race, and the electrofuels field is taking notice.