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Total number of Space Energy Headlines: 1092



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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NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost
Source: NASA : Date: 10-02-2021

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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Final Frontier: Why the Space Force Is Here to Stay
Source: The National Interest Online : Date: 07-02-2021

But Space Force is doing still more; its investments in disruptive technology are maintaining parity with China’s ambitious goals for space-based solar power, a renewable energy technology that could scale to all global demand and help us lead the world to achieve net-zero emissions. Indeed, Space Force projects like the X-37 PRAM-FX and Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstration Program (SSPIDR) are incubating technologies that could lead to an energy system beyond fossil or nuclear—one that is controlled not by autocracies but by......

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Researchers Explore Laser-Beaming Energy for Lunar and Terrestrial Needs
Source: Mirage News : Date: 06-02-2021

The laser transmits the energy to rovers' solar panels that match the laser's ... Serpe said he wants to work on either renewable energy or space ...

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So, Jeff Bezos, You Really Want to Fix the Planet?
Source: WIRED : Date: 05-02-2021

Poorer urban neighborhoods typically have less green space compared to the suburbs. And when the sun's energy hits a city's concrete-and-asphalt ...

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Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin 'is the most important work I'm doing'
Source: Fast Company : Date: 05-02-2021

A very fundamental long-range problem is that we will run out of energy on Earth. This is just arithmetic. It’s going to happen. As animals, humans use ninety-seven watts of power—that’s our metabolic rate as animals—but as members of the developed world, we use ten thousand watts of power....

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Ultimate EV: This NASA-Funded Space Drive Requires No Fuel
Source: Forbes : Date: 04-02-2021

It's pretty much the holy grail of space science, because as Woodward says, this is a drive that could power not just local travel in our solar system, but ...

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America's New Strategy for Space Nuclear Power
Source: Lawfare : Date: 04-02-2021

Stretching across the solar system from Mercury to Neptune, the United States was the first state to reach every planet with a space probe and ...

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Space-Based Solar Power Could Accelerate Transition to Sustainable Energy
Source: Interesting Engineering : Date: 04-02-2021

Space-Based Solar Power Could Accelerate Transition to Sustainable Energy. Solar, wind, nuclear, and carbon capture might have a new sustainable ...

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NASA's Psyche Mission Moves Forward, Passing Key Milestone
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory : Date: 03-02-2021

Technicians power on the main body of NASA's Psyche spacecraft, called the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis, at Maxar Technologies in Palo ...

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Sci-fi inspired space-based solar stations could send constant solar power to UK
Source: Professional Engineering : Date: 03-02-2021

Such systems would use very large satellites to collect solar energy before converting it to high-frequency radio waves and beaming it to ground-based ...

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Could the moon help to fuel Earth?
Source: CGTN : Date: 31-01-2021

"And most of these programs have, as part of their goal, harvesting helium-3 for terrestrial use. "I'm not sure I'll see it in my lifetime, but I'm sure that my ...

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After Arecibo? A Lunar Crater Telescope.
Source: Science 2.0 : Date: 31-01-2021

The key to future technologies like fusion powered by Helium 3 or building solar power collectors in space from in situ resources, solving the problem ...

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Self-repairing solar panels may be the future of reliable clean energy
Source: Euronews : Date: 30-01-2021

Researchers at GlobalData believe that space-based solar power (SBSP) could be the key to a total transition to green energy. SBSP involves using ...

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Here comes the sun: space-based solar power is on the horizon
Source: Power Technology : Date: 29-01-2021

Space-based solar power (SBSP) is edging closer to becoming a reality and, in the long term, could help complete the transition to green energy ...

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Out of the Shadows: Lunar Solar Experiment Build Completed Despite Challenges
Source: NASA : Date: 28-01-2021

“It's exciting to send a first of its kind experiment, like PILS, to the lunar surface to prove state-of-the-art space solar cells and high-voltage solar arrays ...

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The coming land rush in space
Source: Axios : Date: 26-01-2021

"Although applications like space mining and space solar power satellites might be decades away from being profitable enterprises, it is worth laying ...

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UK government commissions space solar power stations research
Source: https://www.gov.uk/ : Date: 21-01-2021

Solar energy harvested in space offers the potential for an unlimited and constant zero carbon power source

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"CASSIOPeiA" Space Based Solar Power
Source: IECL - International Electric Company Limited : Date: 21-01-2021

IECL's Chief Engineer, Ian Cash, presented the CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite design - which has been hailed as a 'substantial conceptual breakthrough' - to the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference (ISDC 2018), held in Los Angeles in May 2018. Space based solar power (SBSP) has the potential to forever alter our reliance on fossil fuels.

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