If laser beams used to transmit energy miss their targets, they could damage nearby spacecraft and satellites. This could ...

China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

Beijing team finds that potential electrical discharges, though brief, could induce abnormal currents in spacecraft systems.

This test flight, conducted by the Ashburn, Virginia-based startup Overview Energy, marks a major victory in the quest for ...

Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for installation on the Artemis I spacecraft, technicians have extended ...

Solestial, a manufacturer of lightweight, radiation-hardened silicon PV products for space, has received $1.2 million to fund the development of a novel solar array wing concept for small satellites ...

The successful test is a proof-of-concept for Overview Energy's plans to deliver solar energy to Earth from satellites. The Northern Virginia startup hopes to conduct orbital ...

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this space-based solar array never faces nighttime, clouds, or atmospheric ...

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and Solar Junction Corporation (Solar Junction) are launching a revolutionary new technology that will increase the efficiency of spacecraft solar array production and ...

Solar panels positioned in space could be harnessed to continuously supply up to 80 per cent of Europe’s renewable energy by 2050, a new study says. Researchers from King’s College London estimate ...