China isn't the only nation eyeing plans for solar satellite arrays. The U.S. companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, ...

American engineers at Bell Labs unveiled the first photovoltaic solar cell in 1954 ... over time due to the harsh conditions of space. The array consists of five panels that are connected by ...

One U.K.-based startup, Space Solar, is attempting to place massive solar arrays in orbit to deliver gigawatts of clean energy back to our home planet, Interesting Engineering reported.

NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched two new roll-out solar arrays, known as IROSA, to enhance the energy production capacity of the International Space Station’s microgravity complex.

whereas space-based radio antennas can trace the propagation of shocks out to the Earth and beyond, which is particularly relevant for characterizing geoeffective CMEs and SEP events. The detection of ...

The color spectrum of an object in space reveals information about its chemical makeup and distance from Earth. Image A solar array deployment test on one of the PUNCH satellites at Astrotech ...