The US Navy has fired a pizza box sized satellite into orbit that generated enough electricity to power an iPad.
The Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM) was launched in May 2020 and harnesses light from the sun that it converts into electricity.
According to CNN, the experimental tech is attached to a drone that orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.
It’s designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.
“To our knowledge, this experiment is the first test in orbit of hardware designed specifically for solar power satellites, which could play a revolutionary role in our energy future,” said Paul Jaffe, PRAM principal investigator and co-developer of the project.
“Some visions have space solar matching or exceeding the largest power plants today – multiple gigawatts – so enough for a city,” he told CNN.
Read more at The Sun.
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So when we start getting our electricity from space, we’ll have to pay our electric bills to the outerspace electric companies, which will undoubtedly require a few dozen rolls of stamps to pay for the postage to send the checks to space. Of course, we can pay online, but not all of us are computer experts. Truth be told, for me, just posting a comment on Matzav is a major tech accomplishment. As a matter of fact, when they first came out with the push-button phones, I had to call over my neighbor, a veteran elevator operator (lift attendant), to teach me how to work the buttons on the phone. My neighbor spent several hours teaching me how to use the new phone, and he criticized me and told me I was getting too “hung up” on the phones’ technicalities. When I asked him if the pun was intended, he said yes.
This must be the secret space laser that Marjorie Taylor Greene was referring to. How dare Matzav leak this secret on the internet!