Japan launched the first solar sail into space. Solar sail technology uses light for spacecraft propulsion, but not in the same way that traditional solar panels do. While solar panels use light to ...

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Virtus Solis wants to group satellites into massive arrays—100,000 satellites for 100MW—allowing for a highly scalable energy platform. Arrays can grow to 20 ...

In order to respond to these threats, government agencies need to coordinate. That is where SWORM comes in. Formed in 2014 to ...

New ultra-thin solar panels are 1,000 times more effective than standard panels thanks to a breakthrough crystal design.

Japan is testing 'microwave beams' in space, saying goodbye to photovoltaics. The first country to transmit solar power from ...