China's solar panels get a major upgrade with a new spacecraft coating that boosts energy efficiency and durability in ...

A revolutionary “smart” coating, which has been designed to act like an intelligent sunshield for spacecraft solar panels, is ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission pulled off the first-ever artificial eclipse in space using fully automated spacecraft formation flying ...

Ascent Solar Technologies ASTI, the maker of featherweight, flexible and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions that have the potential to power everything from spacecraft to ...

Sandia National Laboratories' spin-off mPower Technology secured Series B funding to scale its production of silicon solar ...

Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration Apr ... telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft ...

A major part of NASA's nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy thermal test to ensure it will ...

Two NASA astronauts will step outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It ...

sunlight collected with Psyche's large solar arrays gets converted into electricity, which then powers up the spacecraft's four thrusters. Once powered up with enough sunlight-derived energy, the ...