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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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A team at Caltech earlier this year wrapped up a mission that used a small satellite in LEO to test thin-film solar cells, flexible microwave-power circuitry, and a small collapsible deployment mechanism. It also launched in 2023 a satellite that used a laser to transmit about 1.5 Space Industry Experts Run the Numbers The U.S. See diagrams.]

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