The Air Force has decided to build a special space ship to collect solar energy and is planning to be launched in 2024.
Nithya Satheesh
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United States of America: The US Air Force has decided to build a special space ship to collect solar energy and is planning to be launched in 2024.
Teleporting solar energy from outer space looks like a Marvel film scenario, but the space could remove the barriers to solar acceptance that dominate Earth's discourse. The benefit of getting a solar panel in space is that there are no clouds to block or even decrease the efficiency of solar panels. They can rotate to maximize exposure to more sunlight over a longer period of time every day. Sunlight is more powerful outside the earth's atmosphere. The solar above the clouds is more effective, with greater amounts and exposure times.
Earlier this month, the Air Force Research Lab revealed a component known as Helios for its upcoming Arachne spacecraft which is the main part of the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research project. Arachne will be released in 2024. Helios will assemble power for other spaceships, making it an essential piece of research and a proof of concept for some of NASA's great ideas on the journey to the moon and eventually to Mars. But Arachne is also a working model of how solar energy might look like to Earth from space.
As per the report, Arachne will demonstrate emerging technologies that promote the conversion of solar energy into radiofrequency (RF) energy, using innovative sandwich tiles and the feasibility of transferring this energy to the ground and turning it into usable energy.
Solar energy is essential to our long-term space flight plans due to its abundant and 100% renewable nature, saving vital weight and reduce the use of volatile chemicals on unsafe flights.