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Total number of Space Energy Headlines: 685



Studying How to Bring Solar Power Down to Earth
Source: Parabolic Arc : Date: 02-04-2022

As part of that effort, a new project looks into designing solar-power satellites, which would become the largest structures ever built in space.

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Space-based solar power research launched
Source: TheBusinessDesk.com : Date: 01-04-2022

Space-based solar power research launched. Mark Garnier MP, vice-chair of the All Party Space Group, at the Space Energy Initiative launch.

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Scientists achieve record efficiency for ultra-thin solar panels
Source: ScienceDaily : Date: 30-03-2022

Their solar panels, just one micrometer thick, convert light into ... useful in space and could make new extra-terrestrial projects viable.

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Spotlight On Space Solar Power As EU Skitters Away From Russian Gas
Source: CleanTechnica : Date: 29-03-2022

The US Air Force Research Laboratory lists space solar power among its key technology projects for the warfighter of the future.

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UK Government pursuing space-based solar power
Source: Electronics Weekly : Date: 28-03-2022

The government is embarking on a programme to develop technologies for beaming power from space. The feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) ...

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Why space might solve the biggest problem with solar energy
Source: Inverse : Date: 28-03-2022

The space-based solar power system involves a solar power satellite — an enormous spacecraft equipped with solar panels. These panels generate ...

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Solar panels in space aren't as ridiculous as they seem
Source: News Net Nebraska : Date: 26-03-2022

In these past years, China And Japan proposed to the public the hypothesis of installing solar panels in space: an idea as absurd as it might be ...

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How exactly would a solar power station in space work?
Source: The Independent : Date: 24-03-2022

The Space Solar Power Project in the US is developing high-efficiency solar cells as well as a conversion and transmission system optimised for use in ...

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United Kingdom explores construction site to capture solar energy in space: Understand how it works
Source: Lodi Valley News.com : Date: 23-03-2022

For that, you need to build a solar-powered satellite: a large spacecraft equipped with solar panels. The panels generate electricity, which is then ...

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UK to launch first power station in SPACE – Limitless green energy to slash foreign ties
Source: Daily Express : Date: 20-03-2022

The Space Energy Initiative is the plan to create "Space Based Solar Power" (SBSP) (Image: Getty ). This comes as the UK has been scrambling to ...

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A solar station in space? This is not science fiction, the UK is evaluating the
Source: News Net Nebraska : Date: 18-03-2022

A Solar Power Plant in Space: Jovana Radulovic, a mechanical engineering researcher and specialist in renewable energy systems, talks about it at ...

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AFRL Demos Space-Based Solar Power System
Source: National Defense Magazine : Date: 18-03-2022

The military may be one step closer to powering its bases with solar energy from space. Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space ...

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A solar power station in space? Here's how it would work – and the benefits it could bring
Source: The Conversation : Date: 18-03-2022

The space-based solar power system involves a solar power satellite – an enormous spacecraft equipped with solar panels. These panels generate ...

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Solar farm in space 'would beam energy back to Earth'
Source: The Times : Date: 15-03-2022

A £16 billion proposal to build a massive solar power station in space is being taken seriously by the government, the science minister has said.

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Rolls-Royce leads new space station project on MOON- UK to make 'significant strides.
Source: Daily Express : Date: 14-03-2022

Rolls-Royce to develop a power station for space that could power the generation of water, breathable oxygen and fuels for solar exploration.

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Australian astronaut says time is right for space-based solar farms
Source: pv magazine Australia : Date: 14-03-2022

Scully-Power, who became the first Australian-born person to leave Earth when he served as a payload specialist aboard the 13th flight of NASA's Space ...

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Rocket Lab unveils space solar cell with 33.3% efficiency
Source: PV Magazine : Date: 11-03-2022

The new cell can be used in applications in the civil, military and commercial space markets. “The IMM-β is also a radiation-hard cell with a power ...

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The Next Bets for Renewable Energy
Source: The Wall Street Journal : Date: 10-03-2022

These systems may enable engineers to expand the geographic range of where geothermal plants can be built. SUN. Space-Based Solar. Experimental ...

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Solar Power From Space - IEEE Spectrum
Source: IEEE Spectrum : Date: 10-03-2022

The idea of solar panels circling Earth and beaming down power is gaining ... Eliza Strickland: JAXA has been researching space-based solar power ...

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Rocket Lab Begins Qualification of Highest Performing Space Solar Cell Technology
Source: Business Wire : Date: 09-03-2022

Developed by SolAero Technologies Inc., a space solar power company recently acquired by Rocket Lab, the IMM-β solar cells are the highest ...

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Fission Power Is What NASA Plans to Use to Take Over the Moon and Mars
Source: AutoEvolution : Date: 05-03-2022

Generally speaking, space exploration has long depended on batteries, solar energy, or some type of chemical reaction for its needs.

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Prophets of the High Frontier
Source: The Space Review : Date: 28-02-2022

O'Neill's vision was tied to the concept of space-based solar power, an idea that was even evaluated by NASA and big aerospace companies around ...

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Laser-Powered Sails Would be Great for Exploring the Solar System too
Source: Universe Today : Date: 28-02-2022

Between the exponential growth of the commercial space industry (aka. NewSpace) and missions planned for the Moon in this decade, it's generally ...

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AFRL to highlight latest technologies at AFA Warfare Symposium
Source: Air Force Research Laboratory : Date: 18-02-2022

Some of the space programs to be highlighted by AFRL include Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project (SSPIDR) and Cislunar ...

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A solar cell you could make on the moon
Source: pv magazone : Date: 28-12-2021

As part of a project headed by the European Space Agency investigating materials for long-term missions, scientists in Estonia are investigating a tiny iron-based crystal as a potential solar cell material. So far, the material has not achieved the sort of efficiency that would spark a lot of interest. These researchers, however, are interested in it for a different reason: Beyond planet Earth, the material is abundant enough that it could eventually be manufactured on the Moon. (Estonia)

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