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	5.729	Beating the fear of darkness	Areospace America - Paul Marks	A constellation of space-based solar power satellites in lunar orbit could, as soon as 2028, be ready to wirelessly power lunar landers and rovers through the grueling cold of the long lunar night.		Energy
	5.728	US Startup Plans to Establish the First Solar-Powered Data Center on Moon	Tomorrow's World Today	In collaboration with Space Florida and Intuitive Machines, the company has already conducted preemptive tests, including the first full data storage ...		Energy
	5.727	China's Space Solar Power Mission: Can Such Ambitions Usher in a New Era of Renewables?	Outlook Business	In theory, the solar power satellite is a massive spacecraft stationed in geostationary earth orbit, featuring large solar panels. The facility for SBSP project was constructed by the Chongqing Collaborative Innovation Research Institute for Civil-Military Integration in China...		Energy
	5.726	Star Catcher Secures AFWERX SBIR Phase 1 to Advance Space Power Beaming	Space War News	By delivering concentrated energy directly to the solar arrays of operational satellites, the technology ...		Energy
	5.725	The power dilemma: Energy access could make or break the space economy this year	SpaceNews	The commercialization of space is poised to be one of the most transformative yet challenging arenas for innovation this decade. Terrestrial industries such as telecommunications, defense, agriculture, and now AI, are rapidly pushing into the frontier of space. And, in order to flourish, these space missions will require immense power...		Energy
	5.724	Star Catcher Awarded AFWERX SBIR Phase 1 to Advance Space-to-Space Power Beaming	PR Newswire	The network will deliver on-demand energy to existing solar arrays on client spacecraft at higher concentrations than the Sun, enabling them to ...		Energy
02-12-2025	5.723	Solar power from space	All-About-Industries	Renewable energies Solar power from space ... China is working on a massive solar farm in space. In June 2021, an experimental solar power plant for space was built for the first time in Chongqing, in Sichuan Province.		Energy
02-04-2025	5.722	Could Space Solar Power Play a Key Role in Disaster Relief?	POWER Magazine	Space Solar Power (SSP), which can beam energy directly to disaster zones from space, regardless of ground conditions, offers a transformative ...		Energy
	5.721	Ending the dream	SpaceNews - Gary Church	The path to salvation was foreseen by Gerard K. O’Neill half a century ago. The threats to our species are societal collapse and climate change — and the solution is space solar power by way of lunar resources ...		Energy
	5.720	Billionaire Robinhood co-founder launches Aetherflux, a space-based solar power startup	MSN	“What we're doing at Aetherflux is a different approach of space solar power,” Aetherflux founder Baiju Bhatt said in a recent interview. “As we like ...		Energy
	5.719	The Race for Space-Based Solar Power Stations	iHLS i-hls.com	Unlike terrestrial solar power systems, which are affected by weather patterns, time of day, and seasonal changes, space-based solar arrays would ...		Energy
	5.718	China Has Plans For A Gigantic Solar Array In Space	CleanTechnica	China is proposing an orbiting solar power station that would beam energy down to Earth 24 hours a day, every day.		Energy
	5.717	China's 1km Solar Array: The Manhattan Project of Energy	Energy Digital Magazine	“We are working on this project now,” says Long Lehao, a senior Chinese scientist who is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one of the brains behind the project..		Energy
01-11-2025	5.716	China plans space solar station with half-mile-long arrays for unprecedented power	Interesting Engineering	Space-based solar power stations are the next big thing. · The Three Gorges Dam, based on the Yangtze River, is China's world's largest hydropower ...		Energy
01-08-2025	5.715	The biggest project in history has started: We will squeeze the Sun from space	Riazor.org	Solar power has gotten a cosmic boost with ESA's SOLARIS project, which aims to harness the Sun's energy from space for sustainable power.	Y	Energy
01-06-2025	5.714	Is Space the Final Frontier for AI's Energy-Hungry Data Centers?	Globely News	Data centers beyond Earth's atmosphere would have access to continuous solar energy and could be naturally cooled by the vacuum of space. Away from ...		Energy
01-05-2025	5.713	The race for space has only just begun	New York Post	“O'Neill wrote about his ideas for mining ores on the moon and the ways in which massive, self-sustaining, solar-powered sky cities could be ...		Energy
01-04-2025	5.712	Data centres in space: they're a brilliant idea, but a herculean challenge -	The Conversation	Data centres beyond Earth's atmosphere would have access to continuous solar energy and could be naturally cooled by ...		Energy
01-02-2025	5.711	The next gold rush is above us, not below us	The Hill	Space-based solar power represents a transformative opportunity to achieve both energy independence and global energy leadership. By investing in ...		Energy
	5.710	Space Solar Race Heats Up, Now With Flying Data Centers	CleanTechnica	Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs.		Energy
	5.709	Scientists announce historic plan to power homes with outer-space solar panels: 'Unparalleled benefits'	TCD	If you're looking for a real space-age energy solution, your wait could soon be over! Three companies are collaborating on efforts to send energy to Earth with a space-based solar energy farm by 2030, Interesting Engineering reports...		Energy
	5.708	Startup aims to use giant space robots to solve Earth's energy crisis: 'We've got a leadership position'	MSN	Three companies in the business of developing renewable solar energy from space struck a historic partnership deal in late October. This deal set the wheels in motion for an unprecedented method of producing clean, solar energy in space through unobstructed power from the sun		Energy
	5.707	Lumen Orbit Wants To Put Data Centers In Space	Forbes	Space Internet with optimized satellite design. Now ... Essentially, the satellite centers would use solar power to operate, and surplus energy ...		Energy
	5.706	Japan initiates space solar power transmission experiment, eye 2025 launch	DigiTimes	Japan is advancing its ambitious space solar power program through foundational experiments designed to collect solar energy in space and transmit ...		Energy
	5.705	Revolutionizing space-based thermal systems: AFRL Spirral Launch On SPX-31	Space War News	James Winter, SSPIDR Program Manager, reiterated that "VEMs not only provide solutions toward making a space-based solar power system a reality, but ...		Energy

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