{"id":587580,"date":"2026-04-05T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:46:09","slug":"china-reveals-military-capabilities-in-new-space-solar-power-plant-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587580\/","title":{"rendered":"China reveals military capabilities in new space solar power plant design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Duan Baoyan, a leading architect of China\u2019s \u201cZhuri\u201d space solar power initiative, wrote in a paper published in Scientia Sinica Informationis last month, that his team had revamped the design of the giant orbital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In addition to energy transmission, the new system was required to support a wide range of tasks \u201csuch as communication, navigation, reconnaissance, interference and remote control\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Duan, a professor of electromechanical engineering at Xidian University in Xian and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also stressed the need for extremely narrow, precisely steerable microwave beams to deliver energy from space to the ground over long distances.<\/p>\n<p>While designed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of wireless power transmission, these capabilities could, in principle, enable targeted signal transmission, including potential applications such as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3322598\/chinas-hypersonic-warfare-data-link-could-dazzle-natos-war-machine-scientists?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jamming or securing military communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is one of the world\u2019s leading countries developing space-based solar power. Unlike solar panels on the ground, which are limited by weather, seasons and the day-night cycle, space-based systems can collect sunlight almost continuously.<\/p>\n<p>The energy is converted into electricity in orbit, transmitted as a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3342443\/chinese-scientists-build-world-first-20gw-microwave-weapon-can-fire-60-second-bursts?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">microwave beam<\/a> to the ground, and then converted back into power by receiving antennas on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duan Baoyan, a leading architect of China\u2019s \u201cZhuri\u201d space solar power initiative, wrote in a paper published in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,66170,512,206574,258000,131,38843,128,287290,285,287289,257999,258002],"class_list":{"0":"post-587580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-california-institute-of-technology","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-academy-of-engineering","13":"tag-duan-baoyan","14":"tag-nasa","15":"tag-omega","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-scientia-sinica-informationis","18":"tag-space","19":"tag-sps-alpha","20":"tag-xidian-university","21":"tag-zhuri"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}