The system is based on a highly compact and flexible ultrathin soft solar blanket that acts as the collection panel and can unroll once the satellite reaches orbit. As it does so, a 3D printer system ...

Chinese solar lighting company intelamp set a new world record for the largest display of solar-power LEDs with an array of 36,862 of its solar lights in the Mingsha Mountain dunes of western China.

WASHINGTON — Boeing announced it has begun 3D printing the structural panels that form the backbone of satellite solar arrays, a step the aerospace giant says will cut production times in half and ...