The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical ...

The company Solestial says the funding will allow them to shrink the development and production time solar cells and arrays ...

Power satellites are an idea that has been around since the late 1960s but not developed commercially because we don't know how to build an inexpensive space transport system. That may have ...

The dual satellites will collect data on magnetic reconnection. A watch party for the launch has been rescheduled to ...

Moreover, the SPS-ALPHA concept, Mankins said, enables a solar-power satellite that can be assembled entirely from individual system elements that weigh no more than 110 to 440 pounds (50 to 200 ...

So ultimately, our goal is solar to RF [radio frequency] power beaming — taking power from the sun that we collect in space, converting it to RF on orbit, and beaming that to the ground where it ...

The coming wave of satellite constellations all need power, but solar panels built for space are extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture. Solestial is ready to change that with space ...

The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, began observing the sun on Sept. 24, 2024. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ...

A satellite in geostationary orbit ran into some trouble when the device meant to position its solar arrays towards the Sun malfunctioned, preventing it from being fully charged. As a result, the ...

A new NASA satellite will study the physics of the sun and the titanic magnetic storms, flares, and explosions that drive space weather across the solar system.