The expense of space-based solar power would include manufacturing costs, maintenance costs, and launch costs, Ceriotti said. “We expect [the] cost to fall in future,” Vijendran said.

My firm, Space Solar, has designed a solar-power satellite called CASSIOPeiA, which is more than twice as powerful – based on the key metric of power per unit mass – as ESA’s design. So far, we have ...

Designing Space-Based Solar. Beaming solar energy from space is not new; telecommunications satellites have been sending microwave signals generated by solar power back to Earth since the 1960s.

A history of space-based solar power. Isaac Asimov first suggested SBSP in a 1941 short story. Peter Glaser described the concept formally in a Science paper in 1968.

Aetherflux’s space solar power technology. Aetherflux announced on April 2 that it raised $50 million in the Series A round. Breakthrough Energy Ventures and NEA also participated in the round ...

Humankind has an extremely high energy demand, which is why a solar collector will be beaming approximately 15 GW of energy ...

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

Solar power, once a 19th-century curiosity, is now the fastest-growing and increasingly the cheapest energy source worldwide.

Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based firm attempting to unlock nuclear fusion to power space travel, is opening its first U.S.

Launch of world’s first satellite computing constellation gives China big head start in orbital data processing, despite ...