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 ...

The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. NASA’s Europa ...

Crews conduct a solar array deployment test on the spacecraft of NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites at ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The ispace Resilience lander will lift off atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space ...

Moreover, the intensity of sunlight reaching a surface in space is much greater than the intensity of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface. Long envisions “installing a solar array 1km wide along the ...

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 24/ ...

Chinese rocket scientist reveals blueprint for ‘incredible project’ to build solar power station in space using super heavy ...

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 ...