Researchers have shown how robots could build enormous structures like solar power arrays in space instead of risking ...

Video from the International Space Station showed that one of two solar arrays on the Cygnus spacecraft failed to unfold after its launch two days earlier. Credit: NASA TV Updated 6:15 p.m ...

Researchers from Japan Space Systems (JSS) recently beamed energy wirelessly from a speeding jet to antennae on the ground.

In a new update, the space agency said Lucy's solar arrays are "stable enough" for the $1 billion spacecraft to carry out its science operations over the coming years as it visits a main-belt ...

Small spacecraft on deep space missions require more electrical power than what is currently offered by existing technology. The four-petal solar array of LISA-T is a thin-film solar array that ...

consisting of thin-film modules that were integrated into Momentus’s Tape Spring Solar Array (TASSA), which recently completed initial in-space testing. Beyond establishment of NASA Technology ...

Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always ... with the collection of photons—is fairly simple. Large solar arrays in geostationary orbit collect solar energy and ...

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Thales Alenia Space recently completed the assembly and testing of an engineering model of the solar array for our Space INSPIRE product line. Thales Alenia Space recently completed the assembly ...

The researchers conducted the power transfer experiment using the Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment, or MAPLE, which is a small prototype aboard the in-orbit Space Solar ...

No problem, says the European Space Agency: Just put the solar arrays in space. The agency recently announced a new exploratory program called Solaris, which aims to figure out if it is ...