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March 13, 2015

Japan firm marks one small step for solar energy in space
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2015
A major Japanese machinery company said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, marking a step toward making solar power generation in space a reality. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it used microwave technology to send 10 kilowatts of power - enough to run a set of conventional kitchen appliances - through the air to a receiver 500 metres (1,640 feet) away. Wireless power transmission is currently under development as the core technology to tap the vast amount of sol ... read more

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Collaborative Agreement to Advance Solar Arrays for Satellite Power Systems

Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers

FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena

World View completes first commercial flight with NASA-selected payloads		Argentina to make military drones		China's Space Laboratory Still Cloaked		45th Space Wing unveils multi-vehicle launch support center		Bangladesh uses SERVIR for flood warning system
UN to hold disaster meeting in tsunami-hit Japan		Indonesia threatens Australia with 'tsunami' of asylum-seekers		Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells		Chemists develop new way to make cost-effective material for electricity storage		Silk could be new 'green' material for next-generation batteries

ORNL microscopy directly images problematic lithium dendrites in batteries

ASU researchers explore longer life cycle for batteries

China seeking yuan role in IMF reserve currency

Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough

Microbial soil cleanup at Fukushima

Japan marks 4th anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster

China data hits multi-year lows, boosting stimulus hopes

Australian miners brace for more pain as China slows

Chinese lawyer named first woman to head UN aviation body

Toward Methuselah - long-living lighting devices

Four years on, Japan's tsunami victims frozen in their tragedy

China inflation jumps but worries endure

WTO to help settle Canadian trade rows with China, Taiwan

Soyuz Installed at Baikonur, Expected to Launch Wednesday

Energy-generating cloth could replace batteries in wearable devices

Galileo satellites ready for fuelling as launcher takes shape

Lockheed Martin Eyes Portable Fusion Engines Within Decade

Planetary Society Announces Test Flight for Privately Funded LightSail Spacecraft

ISRO races to fix glitch in navigational satellite so that it can be launched in time

China's test spacecraft simulates orbital docking

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