Caltech is About to Start Harvesting Energy from Space
The prototype spacecraft will test how solar power can be generated from orbit and sent wirelessly back to Earth.
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The prototype spacecraft will test how solar power can be generated from orbit and sent wirelessly back to Earth.
The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on January 3.
The Space Solar Power Demonstrator will test the feasibility of transmitting solar to Earth as electricity and was made possible by $100M in funding from Irvine Co. Chairman Donald Bren.
The California Institute of Technology's Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD) has been launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in a mission to test the viability of harvesting solar power in space.
Caltech is getting ready to launch a first-ever space solar power demonstrator to test the viability of space-based solar power generation.