PASADENA — Caltech scientists in Pasadena on Tuesday, Jan. 3, celebrated the launch of a Space Solar Power Demonstrator prototype into orbit as part of an ambitious effort to harvest solar power in ...

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Caltech's wildly ambitious space solar project, buoyed by a massive hundred-million-dollar donation, is preparing to launch its first prototypes into orbit. These cutting-edge ultralight structures ...

PASADENA – Caltech officials Wednesday unveiled a new 1.1-megawatt solar energy system that will help the campus meet its goal of reaching 1.3 megawatts by 2010 – and stay ahead of the curve in ...

The idea of solar energy being transmitted from space is not a new one. In 1968, a NASA engineer named Peter Glaser produced the first concept design for a solar-powered satellite. But only now, 55 ...

A small prototype launched into orbit in January by a team of Caltech researchers and engineers has successfully demonstrated solar energy can be harvested in space and beamed down to Earth in an ...

PASADENA — Scientists at Caltech are launching a Space Solar Power Demonstrator prototype into orbit Tuesday as part of an ambitious effort to harvest solar power in space and beam that energy back to ...