With backing from Orange County billionaire Donald Bren, wirelessly transmitting power in space opens door to harnessing solar power and beaming it to Earth.
were buzzing this week after an out-of-this-world milestone.
He added: “To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever demonstrated wireless energy transfer in space even with expensive rigid structures.” But for years, researchers have dealt with what has been an elusive solution: Under development for decades, space solar power, the process of harnessing solar power in space and beaming energy back to earth using solar power satellites, was not just the stuff of sci-fi.
But the project really got off the ground in 2011 when billionaire real estate developer Donald Bren approached Caltech with a proposal to fund research into space solar power. Bren pledged a donation of more than $100 million to be paid throughout the lifespan of the project. The first of the MAPLE experiments tested the technology’s ability to successfully direct a beam of energy at a precise location in the harsh environment of space.
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