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 ...

Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) experiment marks a historic first in transmitting solar power from space to Earth, addressing the challenge of the variability of renewable energies ...

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Today, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has made a significant stride in the field of space solar power. The institute has successfully demonstrated the ability to transmit power from ...

A Caltech team is celebrating the world's first space-based wireless power transmission, and the first time detectable levels of power have been beamed down to Earth. The Space Solar Power Project ...

The Caltech Space Solar Power Project prototype launched into orbit as a part of an ambitious plan to harvest solar power and beam it back to Earth. Space solar power provides a way to tap into the ...

On Wednesday, February 17, at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Mansi Kasliwal (MS '07, PhD '11), assistant professor of astronomy in Caltech's Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, continues the ...

that has only come about in the last decade. His talk is part of the ongoing Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series that takes place on the Caltech campus.