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Total number of Space Energy Headlines: 1092
Space-sourced power could beam electricity where needed
Source: Network World : Date: 2019-11-14
Capturing solar energy in space and then beaming it down to Earth could provide consistent electricity supplies in places that have never seen it ...
China Proposes Establishing Moon-Based Special Economic Zone
Source: China Briefing : Date: 2019-11-08
China has already started investing in Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) – a technology that it plans to use to power a lunar base. China has already started investing in Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) – a technology that it plans to use to power a lunar base. The SBSP’s deployment will take place in stages, with the first satellite scheduled for deployment in low-Earth orbit by 2025 and the GEO-based SBSP to be deployed by 2050.
The Air Force Is Trying to Beam Solar Power Down to Earth
Source: Futurism : Date: 2019-11-06
The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could one day collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth, military newspaper Stars and Stripes ...
See Why Tech Billionaires Are Diving Into The Space Race And How You Can Profit
Source: oilprice.com : Date: 2019-11-06
Popular Mechanics estimates that if we could mine every last ounce of helium 3 from the moon... it’d be worth around $25 quadrillion.
Space economy: China wants to set up $10 trillion Earth-Moon economic zone
Source: RT : Date: 2019-11-05
As Earth is apparently too small for China’s economic ambitions, the country is considering developing commerce beyond our planet and wants to create an economic zone in cislunar space by 2050.
Researchers transmit energy with a laser-in 'historic' power-beaming demonstration
Source: Southgate Amateur Radio Club : Date: 2019-11-01
For the first time, hundreds of watts of power were wirelessly transmitted hundreds of meters, with an integrated system...According to Jaffe, power beaming could also make possible the transmission of power from solar-energy-collecting satellites in space to the ground, wherever it's needed...
NASA Develops Method To Print Solar Cells For Astronauts To Stay On Moon, Mars
Source: UrduPoint News : Date: 2019-11-01
Assembly of solar cells in space would also require a new technology known as electrospraying, the release added. "Electrospraying works like an ...
USAF and Northrop develop space-based solar power beaming capability
Source: Airforce Technology : Date: 2019-10-28
The US Air Force (USAF) is developing space-based solar power beaming capability to meet the energy needs of the Department of Defense (DoD) ...
AFRL developing space solar power beaming
Source: Aerotech News : Date: 2019-10-27
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is developing space-based solar power transmission capability using high-efficiency solar cells to collect ...
Jeff Bezos' space colonization plan was partially inspired by a 1976 book he read in high school
Source: Business Insider : Date: 2019-10-26
“The High Frontier” explains physicist and Princeton professor Gerard K. O'Neill's “three-pronged plan of Space Colonization, Space Solar Power and ..
US Air Force Research Laboratory Developing Space Solar Power Beaming
Source: Edwards Air Force Base : Date: 2019-10-25
The Air Force Research Laboratory is the primary scientific research and development center for the United States Air Force. AFRL plays an integral ...
Researchers Transmit Energy Using a Laser
Source: Machine Design : Date: 2019-10-24
At NRL, Jaffe has been conducting space-based solar energy research for more than a decade, focusing in part on transmitting solar energy from ...
How NASA could help stop climate change with solar satellites
Source: Washington Post : Date: 2019-10-24
How NASA could help stop climate change with solar satellites ... In 2014 Mankins's book, “The Case For Space Solar Power,” used even better ...
China announces space project to send energy back to Earth
Source: Energy Matters : Date: 2019-10-22
China is developing plans to launch an entire solar energy plant closer to the sun, so they can beam energy back to Earth...
Electric orbit raising and space weather
Source: ROOM, Space Journal : Date: 2019-10-21
New research suggests that, in a worst-case scenario, the degradation of satellite solar arrays due to space weather effects may result in a drop in ...
Germany's Bet on Solar Power May Get Lost in the Wind
Source: Yahoo Finance : Date: 2019-10-13
One could put a solar panel on every roof if it's cheap enough, but wind turbines require much more space (which makes them a target for “not in my ...
Why NASA's Renewed Efforts In Space Exploration Are Great News For The Fuel Cell Industry
Source: Forbes : Date: 2019-10-13
This, in turn, could facilitate the success of clean solar and wind energy farms, with hydrogen fuel being used to supplement the inconsistent energy ...
German government wants 98 GW of solar by 2030
Source: PV magazine : Date: 2019-10-13
The new. more ambitious target is part of a climate protection program Berlin is now defining. The solar sector believes, however, 98 GW will not be enough to ensure the country’s energy transition.
ISRO's space docking experiment to happen next year
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine : Date: 2019-10-01
Elsewhere in the world, there are talks of space solar stations, which are giant solar power plants up in space which produce electricity from the sun ...
In Memoriam: Dr. David R. Criswell, 1941-2019
Source: Planetary News (press release) : Date: 2019-09-24
Criswell was most passionate about and most noted for his work on a potential lunar solar power system, which was designed to build bases on the Moon in order to beam clean, renewable energy from the Sun to Earth.
One giant leap for Australia's space program
Source: The Age : Date: 2019-09-23
Our main customer for those resources, the People’s Republic of China, is one of a number of nations already looking at ways that space can provide answers to meeting mankind’s increasing energy needs, in the form of a solar power station orbiting 36,000 kilometres above the Earth....
How science will pave the way for a space revolution from new satellites to solar panels on the Moon
Source: iNews : Date: 2019-09-20
This will pave the way for an explosion of space activity, from new satellite services to potentially putting solar panels on the Moon and mining ...
ISRO moves on, gears up to test semi-cryogenic engine in Ukraine
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine : Date: 2019-09-19
A new AVATAR - These are solar power plants in space that will produce electricity and beam it down as microwaves. Today, taking up tonnes of material to build such ...
Scientists Harness The Cold Of Outer Space And Turns It Into Renewable Energy
Source: ÜberGizmo : Date: 2019-09-13
However, besides those, what else could be used? Turns out that the coldness of outer space could potentially act as a form of renewable energy as well. In fact, in a paper published on Thursday, scientists at UCLA have actually managed to harness the cold of outer space using just a $30 device, where they managed to draw enough power to power up an LED bulb.
Helium-3 Mining on the Lunar Surface
Source: ESA Energy : Date: 2019-10-08
The Apollo programme's own geologist, Harrison Schmidt, has repeatedly made the argument for Helium-3 mining, whilst Gerald Kulcinski at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is another leading proponent.
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