Space-to-Space Power Beaming Could Enable Rapid Orbital Transfer

Credit: NASA
Beaming power from space to Earth has been a gleam in the eyes of clean-energy advocates for decades, but could spacecraft-to-spacecraft power beaming be used to position satellites in orbit more quickly, particularly cubesats too small for conventional propulsion systems? NASA is studying how an...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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