The race for generating solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth is heating up, with both scientists and commercial parties looking to commercialize the concept
The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched at 6:55 a.m. PT on January 3. Dubbed the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which will test several key components of an ambitious plan to harvest solar power in space and beam the energy back to Earth.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been working on testing and unlocking the potential of space-based solar power (SBSP) on the recently launched Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP).