In their ambitious designs for orbiting data centers, space companies are going to new lengths—literally. Take SpaceX’s proposed AI1. Its wingspan with solar arrays fully exte ...

Redwire is offering Extensible Low-Profile Solar Array, or ELSA, a product designed for mass-manufactured satellites. Credit: Redwire WASHINGTON — Redwire has introduced a new solar array product ...

Elon Musk vowed this week to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets — and once again he's taking on long odds. The world's richest man said he wants to put as many as a million ...

China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit that would beam electricity back to Earth. The project would rely on a vast ...

Following the closure of its €5.4 million ($6.23 million) pre-seed funding round, Luxembourg’s TerraSpark aims to carry out its first space-to-earth power transmission in 2028 using radio ...

Space-based solar could power AI more efficiently than on Earth, with full-scale deployment possible in two to three years, Elon Musk said last week in Davos, Switzerland. SpaceX’s Starship launch ...

Using a few mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter, Fan Guanheng and his team can send power over 100 metres (330 feet) through the air. But they are dreaming much bigger – 36,000km (23,460 ...