Extreme Solar Sailing for Breakthrough Space Exploration

As of date, deep space exploration has been hindered by the limitations of existing propulsion technologies. In contrast, solar sails appear to allow a low cost pathway to high speed

Shooting Tiny, High Speed Bullets at a Spacecraft Could Speed Up

Today, multiple space agencies are investigating cutting-edge propulsion ideas that will allow for rapid transits to other bodies in the Solar System.

Orbiting Data Centers To Deploy Solar Power 24/7

Solar power is front and center in the race to launch satellite data centers into space, where 24/7 sunlight is available.

California''s $100 Billion Electric Bullet Train Will Be Fully Solar Powered

Brightline West, the proposed high-speed railway connecting Las Vegas to suburban L.A. by private equity billionaire Wes Edens, also intends to rely on carbon-free electricity. Unlike California''s plan, it

Solar power generation at high speed

N2 - We show that solar cells, widely used in portable devices for power generation, can simultaneously extract a high-speed data signal in an optical wireless communication link.

Breakthrough Starshot

OverviewInitial announcementObjectivesConceptTechnical challengesStarChipBreakthrough Starshot was a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives program to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.34 light-years away. It was founded in 2016 by Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Concentrating Solar Power

The DOE SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy technologies cost-competitive with other forms of energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by about 75% by

Space power: The dream of beaming solar energy from

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could make it a reality.

Effects of wind speed and tropospheric height on solar power

This paper employs modeling and simulations coupled with experimentation to establish a functional relationship between the percentage of solar power gain, tropospheric height, and wind

Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within

Here we report measurements of fast solar wind streams from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft 6 that provide strong evidence for the interchange reconnection mechanism.