In space, as one Caltech researcher put it, it’s “always noon on a sunny day.”. The basic idea isn’t new—space-based solar power was mentioned in a sci-fi story in 1941, and NASA began ...

Researchers at Australia's national science agency have developed an efficient method to produce green hydrogen for ...

According to a video published in March by Virtus, a satellite constellation operating in Molniya orbit, or a highly elliptical orbit, will beam the solar power to Earth. The companies will launch ...

New wireless power solution from Yank Technologies has attracted a NASA contract to beam power to robots from its lunar rover. advertisement. ... things are largely solar powered once they get there.

Remote-controlled robots could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK.. British startup Space Solar conducted the test at the UK Atomic Energy Authority ...

In a 1941 short story, Reason, from Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, a certain Gregory Powell and Mike Donovon are assigned to a space station, carrying a very important role for humankind ...

TROY, MI - In space, the sun is always shining. So why not put a solar farm up there? One Michigan startup is already on its way, aiming to take an idea featured in Isaac Asimov’s science ...

How Nate Beckett describes Planted Solar’s robots sounds like the start of a bad joke: What happens when you marry what looks like an industrial-sized toothpick dispenser with a similarly-sized ...

Solar robots by Rosendin, makes its way out following an installation of photovoltaic solar modules, on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at the Sequoia Solar Facility in Cisco.

The idea of a solar beam that transmits energy from space to Earth was first proposed in 1968 by Peter Glaser, an engineer working with NASA during the Apollo era. At the time, it was considered ...