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Space solar power stations could accidentally fry nearby satellites with laser beams
The US and China are racing to build space-based solar power infrastructure that would beam electricity down to Earth 24/7.
Interesting Engineering on MSN
How US firm plans to beam solar power from orbit after world-first aircraft laser test
Flying over Pennsylvania, the small airplane wirelessly beamed power down to receivers on the ground. The flight test marked ...
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This Startup Beamed Power from Moving Aircraft to Earth — a Big Step Toward Space Solar Energy
A U.S. startup called Overview Energy successfully carried out a wireless power-beaming test using a moving aircraft in ...
It's been decades since humanity first sent a satellite into orbit, and during all this time we kind of become experts at it. What we still haven't mastered yet is extending the life of these ...
Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 ...
Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEO SAR) systems represent a promising frontier in Earth observation technology, offering continuous monitoring of specified regions with exceptionally short ...
Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force will evaluate commercial alternatives to its bespoke military ...
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