{"id":115077,"date":"2025-11-04T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115077\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:24:08","slug":"space-startup-beams-more-laser-energy-to-panels-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115077\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Startup Beams More Laser Energy to Panels Than Ever Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Aerospace startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-catcher.com\/\" title=\"Star Catcher website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Star Catcher Industries Inc.<\/a>, which is developing technology to beam solar power to orbiting satellites, said it wirelessly transmitted more electricity in a ground test than ever before, marking another step toward creating the equivalent of a space grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Using a suite of lasers, the company successfully sent energy to off-the-shelf solar panels positioned more than 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) away. The tests took place at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/29638Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0235120Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> in Florida last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aerospace startup Star Catcher Industries Inc., which is developing technology to beam solar power to orbiting satellites, said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[74255,114,12808,1210,234,85,12810,46,46953,74254,8902,141,145,74253,303,17938],"class_list":["post-115077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-andrew-rush","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-florida","tag-government","tag-il","tag-industries","tag-israel","tag-jacksonville","tag-made-in-space-inc","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-space","tag-star-catcher-industries-inc","tag-startups","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}