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Total number of Space Energy Headlines: 685



Earth Day Feature: Beaming Solar Power From Satellite Array
Source: Los Alamos Daily Post : Date: 21-04-2021

Space Solar Power has been internationally recognized as a foundational capability in need of development. It enables exploration, military advantage, ...

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Review: The High Frontier
Source: The Space Review : Date: 24-04-2021

The prospect of giant cities in space, built of out lunar materials that could also support development of space solar power facilities, seemed at least in ...

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How much solar energy are we NOT capturing?
Source: Energy Matters : Date: 14-04-2021

Solar power goes space age. One potential strategy to supercharge our supply is to install panels on satellites in space, closer to the sun, which then ...

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The High Frontier: The Untold Story Of Gerard K. O'Neill: A Review
Source: Space Ref : Date: 13-04-2021

But I do not want to underestimate the impact of Gerry O'Neill. The very first space thing I worked on was a student project on Solar Power Satellites in ...

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Space-based solar power getting key test aboard US military's mysterious X-37B space plane
Source: Space.com : Date: 09-04-2021

Paul Jaffe, the innovation power beaming and space solar portfolio lead at NRL, said that PRAM-FX is not beaming microwave energy anywhere.

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Solar Electric Propulsion System Hot Fire Testing Completed By Maxar + Busek
Source: SatNews Publishers : Date: 01-04-2021

The PPE will be the most powerful electric propulsion spacecraft ever flown. A key accomplishment of this end-to-end hot fire test was the demonstration ...

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The race for space colonisation and limitless wealth is already here
Source: TRT World : Date: 30-03-2021

No longer just a symbol of a nation's proficiency in spaceflight, the moon offers water ice, solar power, and rare elements such as platinum, titanium, ...

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Space Lasers: The Truth
Source: Forbes : Date: 29-03-2021

This process is called power beaming. Satellites equipped with solar panels collect high intensity solar radiation using giant mirrors to reflect solar rays ...

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NASA Is Considering 5 Space Tech Concepts That Sound Like Sci-Fi
Source: KQED : Date: 26-03-2021

Sounds like a science fiction epic about taming the solar system with a ... of solar energy across the moon's surface to buildings, spacecraft, and other ...

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NASA Developing Sustainable Solar Power Sources for the Moon; Will Support Lunar Rovers Missions by Decade End
Source: The Weather Channel : Date: 24-03-2021

These vertically deployable systems will differ from the existing space-rated solar array structures and deployment systems, which are designed for ...

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Solar Panels in Space Could Beam Continuous Energy Back to Earth
Source: Freethink : Date: 21-03-2021

But if we're able to create a network of larger solar satellites in space, then that could potentially allow us to generate and distribute power anywhere in ...

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The Strategic Implications of the China-Russia Lunar Base Cooperation Agreement
Source: The Diplomat : Date: 20-03-2021

President Xi Jinping has repeatedly highlighted the intrinsic contribution of space to Chinese global leadership. The idea behind China’s space philosophy is to demonstrate high-end technology, including human missions, lunar soft landings (near and far side), lunar sample returns, and Mars missions, to be followed by construction of a permanent space station, space-based solar power satellites, and deep space probes....

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People Used to Laugh at These Three Clean Technologies
Source: Triple Pundit : Date: 11-03-2021

Not too long ago, household solar panels were the provenance of scruffy ... The basic idea is to deploy solar panels in space to capture solar energy ...

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Powering a Moon village
Source: Smart Energy : Date: 03-03-2021

Its external structure could provide a limited space for solar PV, but with a ... A solar power plant at the south pole would have to maintain an array of ...

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US Successfully Tested Space Solar Panel That Could Beam Anywhere on Earth
Source: Korea Portal (English Edition) : Date: 27-02-2021

US scientists and the Pentagon are working together successfully in creating a pizza box size space solar panel. The panel was designed for a future ...

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The Pentagon Sent a Pizza Box-Sized Solar Panel Into Space, But I'm Sure Everything Is Fine
Source: Gizmodo : Date: 26-02-2021

This solar panel is officially called the Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM), and it's designed to capture the powerful blue light in ..

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The Space-Based Solar Arrays That Could Power Our Planet
Source: Interesting Engineering : Date: 24-02-2021

On Tuesday, Redwire acquired Deployable Space Systems (DSS), a leading supplier of deployable solar arrays, structures, and mechanisms capable of ...

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CNN exclusive: A solar panel in space is collecting energy that could one day be beamed to ...
Source: CNN : Date: 24-02-2021

An artist's concept of a space-based solar power system beaming to military and remote installations. (CNN) Scientists working for the Pentagon have ...

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In memoriam: Taylor Dinerman
Source: The Space Review : Date: 23-02-2021

He wrote in support of visionary concepts such as space-based solar power and even worked with several international startups seeking capital to ...

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America Needs a Supercharged Space Program
Source: Foreign Policy : Date: 23-02-2021

Although most renewable energy sources on Earth can only be harnessed intermittently, solar power stations in stationary orbit may be able to do so 24/ ...

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UT receives $12.5M military grant to develop solar energy sheets that can withstand outer space
Source: Toledo Blade : Date: 22-04-2021

“We are very concerned and interested in developing higher efficiency and lighter photovoltaic panels for outer space.” Advertisement. The research is in ...

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True or false? Elon Musk says the sun can power all of civilisation
Source: Energy Matters : Date: 19-02-2021

The brand continues to advance solar technologies, electric vehicles and ... Then we look at solar panels themselves. ... The next frontier is space.

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China is 'very advanced' in space-based solar power
Source: Sky News Australia : Date: 18-02-2021

Sky News host Alan Jones has spoken to Australia's first astronaut Dr Paul Scully-Power about the concept and implications of space-based solar ...

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Space-based PV sheets with power output of 1000 W/kg
Source: pv magazine International : Date: 17-02-2021

U.S. researchers are developing thin-film PV technologies to create lightweight solar sheets to support communication satellites and wirelessly ...

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NASA hires SpaceX to send lunar space station into space
Source: The Denver Channel : Date: 12-02-2021

“The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control, and the ...

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