Could space-based solar power (SBSP) be the ultimate solution to our global energy crisis? As the world struggles to ...

Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always seemed like a futuristic technology with an actual deployment into communities ever remaining a couple of decades away.

Martin Soltau believes that a recent NASA report questioning the economics of space-based solar power was wide of the mark Keep on believing Could sunlight captured by solar cells in space be used to ...

Space Solar wants to keep the lights on in Iceland by beaming solar power from space in a massive step to limitless renewable ...

The space solar power project, announced on Monday (Oct. 21), is a partnership between U.K.-based Space Solar, Reykjavik Energy and Icelandic sustainability initiative Transition Labs. It intends to ...

A microwave-sized spacecraft with large silver wings is tumbling in orbit as engineers work to fix a glitch that’s causing it to lose orientation. After deploying four composite booms on board ...

The boom supports four solar power and communication arrays, also called petals. Releasing the central boom pushes the still-stowed petals nearly three feet (one meter) away from the spacecraft bus.

While NASA revealed that the data gathered since the sail deployment is proving to highly valuable, it added, "The mission team predicts the slight bend in one of the four booms will not inhibit the ...

UK startup Space Solar has signed an agreement with Reykjavik Energy that could see Iceland become the first country to ...

The satellites were built by Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company. The team is completing its integration of the ...