The demonstrator is a key component of the CASSIOPeiA space-based solar power plant concept that is being developed by Space Solar. The company envisions that CASSIOPeiA could be in space within a ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

Chinese scientists say that solar panels in space could collect energy in one year equivalent to all of the oil on Earth ...

Space-based solar power systems (or SBSPs) are different in that they collect energy in Earth orbit. There is no atmosphere or clouds, making this method much more efficient than on the ground.

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million ...

Scientists have created solar cells using simulated Moon dust, potentially solving one of space exploration's biggest ...

Now, though, the nation is setting its sights on something beyond our atmosphere, with reports that it wants to create a space-based solar power station. While this might sound like an out-of-this ...

Star Catcher Industries, a startup designing spacecraft to beam solar energy to other LEO satellites ... to demonstrate the technology at a former Space Shuttle landing site.

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers ...

Consequently, “it is estimated that space-based harvesters could potentially yield eight times more power than solar panels at any location on the surface of the globe.” Tapping into such a ...

This isn’t science fiction—it’s space-based solar power (SBSP), a technology that could revolutionize how clean energy is generated and distributed. While conventional solar panels on Earth can only ...