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October 23, 2026
DARPA Bets on Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Control for Space — Here's What It Proves
October 22, 2026
NASA's SR-1 Freedom Fission Spacecraft Marks a Real Milestone for Deep-Space Power
October 21, 2026
Poland's Artemis Hedging Is a Warning Shot for Lunar Surface Power Programs
October 20, 2026
India's Vikram-1 Orbital Success Signals a Real Launch Market Shift
October 17, 2026
What Shatel Bhakta Just Got Right About Powering a Moon Base
October 17, 2026
NASA's Moon Base Power Problem: What the 2028 Deadline Means for Lunar Surface Energy
October 16, 2026
456 Starship Launches a Year: What SpaceX's FAA Filing Means for Space Solar's Cost Curve
October 15, 2026
NASA's Bimodal Nuclear Rocket Design Points to a New Power Architecture for Deep Space
October 14, 2026
NASA's 70-Landing Lunar Decade Hinges on Surface Power Nobody Has Built Yet
October 13, 2026
Nuclear Batteries in Orbit and a NASA–DOE Pact: Lunar Surface Power Takes Two Steps Forward
October 10, 2026
NASA and DOE's Nuclear Push Forces a Lunar Surface Power Reckoning
October 10, 2026
What NASA and the DOE Just Got Right About Nuclear Power on the Moon
October 9, 2026
NASA's GIMLI Mission Will Probe Whether Lunar Pits Can Host Surface Power Infrastructure
October 8, 2026
NASA's New Power Lab and Lunar Grounding Challenge Signal a Serious Push for Surface Power
October 7, 2026
Lunar Laser Clocks and 1,000 MHz of New Spectrum: What Changed This Week for Space Power and Navigation
October 6, 2026
Europe's Launch Gap Is a Space Solar Bottleneck — And €2.7M Won't Close It
October 3, 2026
Orbital Data Centers Need Power First — Transporter-18 Just Started That Test
October 3, 2026
What This Swarm-Power Paper Just Got Right About Orbital Solar Coordination
October 2, 2026
Cornell's Orbital Lightsail Demos Raise a Hard Question for In-Space Power
October 1, 2026
Starship Reaches Orbit and Swift Stalls: Two Data Points That Define In-Space Power's Near-Term Ceiling
September 30, 2026
Star Catcher, Meridian Space, and a 1,000°C Microreactor: Three Milestones That Reframe Off-World Power
September 29, 2026
Orbital AI Data Centers: Why 10 GW by 2030 Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
September 26, 2026
What Henner Jahnke Just Got Right About Tracking Solar Economics
September 26, 2026
Nuclear Batteries in Orbit: What Tritium Betavoltaics Mean for Lunar Surface Power
September 25, 2026
Beyond Reach Labs Opens Brooklyn Facility to Scale High-Power Deployable Solar Arrays for Orbit
September 24, 2026
FCC's NEPA Waiver Vote and $100 Billion Spectrum Push: What Space Solar Operators Need to Know
September 23, 2026
JA Solar's Orbital HJT Demo Puts Space-Grade PV on the Lunar Economy's Critical Path
September 22, 2026
JA Solar's LEO Module Test: What a Terrestrial Giant's Orbit Bet Proves — and Doesn't
September 19, 2026
Starship's First Orbital Attempt Is the Launch Cost Test Space Solar Has Been Waiting For
September 19, 2026
What Ning Liu Just Got Right About Building on Mars With Biology
September 18, 2026
BAE Systems' $16M RH45 Award Signals Radiation-Hardened Electronics Are Back on the Critical Path
September 17, 2026
Idemitsu's US CIGS Lab Is a Bet That Thin-Film Wins the Space Solar Cell Race
September 16, 2026
Antares Lands $161M DoD Nuclear Power Contract — What It Means for In-Space Power
September 15, 2026
DOE Bets on Silicon and Perovskites to Break III-V's Grip on Space Solar Cells
September 12, 2026
What Rocket Lab Just Got Right About Space Solar Cell Design
September 12, 2026
Rocket Lab's 31.5%-Efficient IMM Cell and Idemitsu's CIGS Lab Signal a Space Solar Cell Shakeup
September 11, 2026
Stoke Space's $1B Series E Signals Fully Reusable Rockets Are Now a Serious Launch Bet
September 10, 2026
Chang'e-7 Delay Sharpens the Stakes for NASA's Lunar Power Race
September 9, 2026
Artemis III Stack Hardware Is Moving: What Surface Power Planners Need to Watch Now
September 8, 2026
Starship's East Coast Debut and the Launch Cost Floor That Space Solar Needs
September 5, 2026
SES O3b mPOWER Constellation Nears Completion as Europe's Launch Capital Race Heats Up
September 5, 2026
What the Lunar Laser Team at IEEE Spectrum Just Got Right About Moon Navigation
September 4, 2026
ESA's MAGPIE Lunar Rover Deal and Artemis III Engine Install Signal a Busy Season for Moon Surface Power Planning
September 3, 2026
DOE's $12 Million SBSP Bet: What the Fund Proves — and What It Doesn't
September 2, 2026
Elve's 100 W Millimeter-Wave Amplifier Hits TRL-8: What It Means for Power Beaming
September 1, 2026
Elve's TRL-8 TWTA Breaks a U.S. Monopoly That Power-Beaming Can't Afford to Ignore
August 29, 2026
What Samantha Lawler Just Got Right About a Million Satellites and the Night Sky
August 29, 2026
City Labs' Second Nuclear Demo Signals a Credible Path for Milliwatt-Class Lunar Surface Power
August 28, 2026
Starlink's $11.4 Billion Engine: How Satellite Broadband Is Bankrolling Starship's Infrastructure Buildout
August 27, 2026
Tritium Betavoltaic Cells Head to Orbit: What It Means for Lunar Surface Power
August 26, 2026
Beyond Reach Labs' Flarewing and ESA's Nuclear Argonaut Signal a Surface Power Reckoning
August 25, 2026
China's Chang'e-7 and NASA's Cargo Landers: Who Powers the Lunar South Pole First?
August 22, 2026
Elve's TRL-8 mmWave Amplifier Is the Quiet Infrastructure Win Space Solar Needs
August 22, 2026
What UNSW's Xiaojing Hao Just Got Right About Earth-Made Solar for Space
August 21, 2026
Zeno Power's Lunar Night Survival Test: What the Firefly RHU Mission Actually Proves
August 20, 2026
Moon Pits Hold a Steady 17°C — But Who Powers the Base Inside Them?
August 19, 2026
UK Space Energy Initiative Pushes for Orbital Solar Demo as Launch Costs and Terrestrial Efficiency Close In
August 18, 2026
Orbital Data Centres Want Space Solar Power — Here's What the Physics Actually Allows
August 15, 2026
Northrop Grumman's Cold-Test Pivot: What Repurposed Gateway Hardware Tells Us About Lunar South Pole Power
August 15, 2026
What Pablo Sobrón Just Got Right About Finding Resources Across the Solar System
August 14, 2026
Moonquakes as Ice Scouts: What Seismic Mapping Means for Lunar Surface Power Siting
August 13, 2026
Perovskite Cells Meet Starship Economics: A Credible Path to Space Solar's Specific-Power Problem
August 12, 2026
Tritium Nuclear Batteries Head to Orbit — and Could Keep Lunar Bases Alive Through the Night
August 11, 2026
Gateway Is Dead, Long Live the Lunar Base: What Northrop and CSA's Pivot Means for Surface Power
August 8, 2026
Lunar Dust Is the Hidden Enemy of Surface Power — Here's How NASA Is Fighting It
August 8, 2026
What Tom Percy Just Got Right About Integrating the Lunar Landing System
August 7, 2026
Silicon PV for Satellites: Fraunhofer ISE and Source Energy Challenge III-V Dominance
August 6, 2026
NASA's Moon Base Cargo Push: Four Landers, One Power Problem That Still Needs Solving
August 5, 2026
Kreios Space's VLEO Air-Breathing Demo Tests the Power Architecture Space Solar Needs
August 4, 2026
Drift-Aware Space Tugs Could Cut Propellant Costs for In-Orbit Servicing Missions
August 1, 2026
K2 Space's $500M Series D Signals a New Power Demand Curve for Large Satellites
August 1, 2026
What This Polish Research Team Just Got Right About Perovskite Solar for Space
July 31, 2026
ispace Picks H3 for 2028 Moon Landing — What the Lunar Surface Power Roadmap Needs Next
July 29, 2026
NASA's $2B Fission Mars Mission Forces a Hard Look at Surface Power Choices
July 29, 2026
Starship's Rapid Reuse Push Is the Hidden Enabler for Space-Based Solar Power
July 28, 2026
ESA's €65M MAGPIE Contract Is a Bet on Lunar Ice — and the Power It Could Unlock
July 24, 2026
What Dr. Sarah Wolff Just Got Right About Building on the Moon
July 24, 2026
NASA's Budget Cuts Shadow Artemis Surface Power as Workforce Shrinks by a Fifth
July 23, 2026
NASA Drops Draper, Reshuffles Artemis: What the Lunar Power Roadmap Looks Like Now
July 22, 2026
Pentagon's $7.1M Cover Glass Contract Signals a Quiet but Critical Supply Chain Fix
July 21, 2026
DIU's Orbital Power Solicitation and ORiS's €5M Raise Signal a Credible SBSP Sprint to 2030