China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new ...

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 main photo of the International Space Station solar array is by NASA via Wikimedia Commons. Sent on alternate Fridays, this US edition of Dezeen Agenda is a fortnightly newsletter rounding up ...

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," ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers are working on a new power station project that could gather and convert solar energy directly from space ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

China isn't the only nation eyeing plans for solar satellite arrays. The U.S. companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, the European Space Agency, and Japan's JAXA space agency have also ...