Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always seemed like a futuristic technology with an actual deployment into communities ever remaining a couple of decades away.

Is space-based solar power a costly, risky pipe dream? Or is it a viable way to combat climate change? Although beaming solar power from space to Earth could ultimately involve transmitting ...

They have a different connectivity goal: connecting everything, everywhere, to energy. They are re-examining the old idea of space-based solar power (SBSP) to see if new technologies and ...

Long a staple of science fiction authors and futurists, the idea of harnessing solar power directly from space has been thwarted by technological and cost barriers. The promise is tantalizing ...

Space-based solar power (SBSP) could prove transformative to global energy demand by providing price-efficient, continuous clean energy from orbit (Figure 1). Recent developments, including low ...

The most efficient solar ... energy, as well as the amount of land and material needed to build it. The problem is that such ultra-efficient cells were designed to power satellites in space ...

Astronauts could build solar panels using the Moon to allow us to live in space, scientists have suggested. The new research would allow future explorers of space to build their own ways of ...

Imagine a world where electricity is no longer limited by fossil fuels or the angle at which the sun shines. A space-based solar panel has been discovered by scientists to switch things up a little in ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit ...

Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity's push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt ... of low Earth orbit satellites that can collect and transmit solar energy directly to “ground stations” on Earth.