NASA engineers and their industry partners have successfully deployed two 400-square-meter solar sails during ground testing. This is a critical milestone in the development of a unique propulsion ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

The 75-meter-high steel structure hosting systems for testing space-based solar power, at Xidian University in Xi'an, north China. Credit: Xidian University HELSINKI — China’s Xidian University has ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In days gone by, explorers traveled into the unknown by sailing on the wind, and the robotic explorers of the future may do some sailing of their own. NASA is on the verge of launching a ...

It's the first system in the world to cover the full range of space solar functions, including tracking the Sun, concentrating light, converting it to electricity, transmitting it in microwave form, ...

A research team at Xidian University in China announced it has successfully tested technology that would enable a space-based solar power plant that could transmit energy to Earth, akin to similar ...

Researchers at China’s Guangdong Power Grid have proposed a new hybrid microgrid system that achieves an operational cost reduction of approximately 18.7% and a drop in carbon emission intensity of ...