New US-China Space Race Heating Up
Going to space for power from the sun
By: Genevieve Donnellon-May
Great-power competition has now ascended to space, with a race underway between China and the United States for space-based solar power generation.
Known colloquially as SBSP, it refers to orbital systems that would collect and harvest solar energy using enormous solar-powered satellites that convert solar energy into microwave…
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