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How US firm plans to beam solar power from orbit after world-first aircraft laser test
In late November, a Cessna turboprop aircraft flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters performed an impressive world-first ...
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A startup just beamed electricity from a moving airplane to prove we can harvest solar power from space
On a blustery November day in 2025, a Cessna turboprop fought its way through the skies over Pennsylvania. The conditions ...
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 ...
Solar power is the cheapest source of electricity in history. But since it isn’t always sunny, and battery storage is still fairly expensive, a handful of startups are working on a different approach: ...
Plenty of radio station DJs claim their music will help you power through your day, but no DJ takes that claim more seriously than the Air Force Research Laboratory, which is working to develop ...
Japan and JAXA, the country’s space administration, have spent decades trying to make it possible to beam solar energy from space. In 2015, the nation made a breakthrough when JAXA scientists ...
A leading Chinese solar power company says it’s sending panels to orbit in an effort to establish a 24/7 operation harvesting the bright solar energy up there and beaming it back to Earth. As ...
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