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Solar Power

NASA gives Blue Origin $34.7M to work on technology for making solar cells on moon

July 25, 2023
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| Blue Origin, Moon missions, NASA, Solar Power

The Blue Alchemist project aims to produce solar cells from lunar materials. (Blue Origin Photo) By Alan Boyle, Published by GeekWire, 25 July 2023 Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won $34.7 million in funding from NASA to support the development of a system that could produce solar cells

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Esa mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space

November 22, 2022
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By Pallab Ghosh, Published by the BBC, 22 November 2022 Space chiefs are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from orbit into millions of homes. The European Space Agency will this week likely approve a three-year study to see if having huge solar farms in space could work

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NASA to reexamine space-based solar power

May 28, 2022
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By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 28 May 2022 WASHINGTON — NASA is starting a study to reexamine the viability of space-based solar power, a long-touted solution to providing power from space that may be getting new interest thanks to technological advances and pushes for clean energy. In a presentation

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Next step for AFRL’s space-based solar power quest: energy beaming

May 26, 2022
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By Theresa Hitchens,Published by Breaking Defense, 26 May 2022 SSPIDR consists of several small-scale flight experiments that will mature technology needed to build a prototype solar power distribution system. WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman is nearing the next ground test of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s far-out space-based solar power project, including

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A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035.

May 11, 2022
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By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space.com, 11 May 2022 The U.K. is getting serious about beaming solar power. The United Kingdom is getting serious about beaming solar power from space and thinks it could have a demonstrator in orbit by 2035.  Over 50 British technology organizations, including heavyweights such as

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Space-based solar power beaming (AFRL graphic)

Space was the place, including for starry-eyed optimism: 5 Stories From 2021

December 27, 2021
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| ASATs, Communications, Moon missions, Satellites, Solar Power, Space Rules, Space Treaties

By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 27 December 2021 Among all the space action over the past year, AFRL's push to expand military space operations to cislunar space — the vast volume of space between the Earth's outer orbit and that of the Moon — and beyond has been

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This image taken by The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft on November 13, 2020 shows the northern Philippines and Typhoon Vamco. North is approximately at upper right. Spectraline (fishing line type material) that originally held the spacecraft panels closed can be seen in the lower right and left. The image has been color-adjusted and some fisheye lens distortion has been removed. Credit: The Planetary Society

LightSail 2 Has Been Flying in Space for 30 Months – Paving the Way for Future Solar Sail Missions

November 20, 2021
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By Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, Published by Scitechdaily, 20 November 2021 Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully “sail on sunbeams” demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future missions that hope to employ solar

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Rendering of Scorpius heating thermal capacitor. Credit: Rhea Space Activity

Space Force eyes solar-powered vehicles for operations near the moon

July 30, 2021
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| Moon missions, Solar Power, Space Force

By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 30 July 2021 RSA won an SBIR contract funded by the Space Force to design a spacecraft with a solar-thermal propulsion system.  WASHINGTON — A startup under contract to the U.S. Space Force is investigating the use of solar-powered vehicles for operations in

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