China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

US space tech and innovation giant Rocket Lab has unveiled STARRAY, a family of customizable, next-generation solar arrays designed to meet the diverse power needs of satellites operating in any ...

BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA – NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks in January outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of a roll-out solar array and ...

Jacksonville, Florida-based Redwire Corporation announced it completed the first deployment test of its roll-out solar arrays (ROSA) for the lunar Gateway space station. Redwire said the 60 kW ROSAs ...

On a quiet mountainside in Suwa, a city tucked away in central Japan, engineers are preparing to receive a faint but momentous signal from space. If all goes to plan, sometime in 2025, a satellite no ...

As the International Space Station orbits Earth, its four pairs of solar arrays soak up the sun’s energy to provide electrical power for the numerous research and science investigations conducted ...

The system is based on a highly compact and flexible ultrathin soft solar blanket that acts as the collection panel and can unroll once the satellite reaches orbit. As it does so, a 3D printer system ...

Rocket Lab USA Inc. launched a new line of advanced solar arrays designed to power satellites across all orbital environments. The new offering, Standardized Array (STARRAY), addresses diverse ...

A team of researchers from China has proposed a plan for a space solar power (SSP) demonstration mission. The mission aligns with the first step of the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) SSP ...