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Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

Google launches Project Suncatcher space data centers by 2027 to power AI with orbital solar energy, facing physics constraints and competition from rivals.

The sun produces more power than 100 trillion times humanity's entire electricity generation. In orbit, solar panels can be eight times more productive than their Earth-bound counterparts, generating ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...