China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.

IMM-β's impact on solar array and launch mass will make it ... where it produces different kinds of space solar cells. These include a 30%-efficient four-junction device on a germanium substrate ...

The main photo of the International Space Station solar array is by NASA via Wikimedia Commons. Sent on alternate Fridays, this US edition of Dezeen Agenda is a fortnightly newsletter rounding up ...

Lightweight, robust, radiation-resilient photovoltaics are critical technologies for many aerospace applications. OPV cells ...

China is pioneering a space-based solar power project, hailed as the “Manhattan Project” of clean energy. Imagine a 1km-wide solar array orbiting 36,000 km above Earth, collecting sunlight 24/ ...

In contrast, organic solar cells can be flexible and are much lighter. This study is among those exploring the reliability of organics, as space missions tend to use highly trusted materials.

China has announced plans to create a huge solar power station in space that will allow the collection ... which includes a one-kilometer long solar panel array, will be launched into the ...

Solar power is already cheap and effective, and it’s taking on a larger role in supplying energy needs all over the world. The thing about humanity, though, is that we always want more!

Sphelar solar-cell technology uses an array of tiny spheres of silicon within ... One of these, the approach adopted by Kyosemi, takes place under space-like conditions of microgravity.