China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...
Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical rockets.
Space-based solar power stations are the next big thing. China is trying something bolder and bigger. China has reportedly announced an ambitious plan to build large-scale solar power stations in ...
The spacecraft confirmed its systems and instruments ... "From the heat shield to the solar array cooling system, there was so much enabling technology required to fly this mission, and to gather ...
China’s 1km-wide solar array will be able to generate as much energy as the total amount of oil that can be extracted from ...
"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it.
China is pioneering a space-based solar power project, hailed as the “Manhattan Project” of clean energy. Imagine a 1km-wide solar array orbiting 36,000 km above Earth, collecting sunlight ...
The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...