The company Reflect Orbital plans to deploy a constellation of orbital mirrors designed to reflect solar light toward Earth ...

A group of scientists from the University of Glasgow has suggested using lightweight orbiting reflectors powered by photovoltaics to increase electricity generation in solar power plants located on ...

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Reflect Orbital has applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a giant mirror to space next year ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A new study out of the University of Glasgow said that large-scale sunlight reflectors placed in space to help solar farms gain additional energy at dawn and dusk could give solar ...

A new research paper in the Acta Astronautica journal describes a constellation of mirror satellites to increase the power at the large solar farms on Earth. Among all cases, the paper found SSO (sun ...

Scientists are developing a low-cost, transparent, anti-soiling coating for solar reflectors to optimize energy efficiency while lowering operating and maintenance costs and avoiding negative ...

If you happened to be looking at the sky in Europe on a cold night on February 5 1993, there is a chance you could have seen a dim flash of light. That flash came from a Russian space mirror ...

In a second thread of head-scratching tweets about Mars, Musk advanced a new theory of cultivating the planet for human habitation. This one seems to involve harnessing the suns rays using 'solar ...