Solar-powered space lasers are about to get their first real test
PLUS: Solving math’s greatest problems used to be an art form—then came AI. View in browser | Your preferences SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS Space lasers that run on harvested sunlight sounds like the technology you’d find in a sci-fi novel. In fact, it sort of is: Isaac Asimov included space-based solar power as a means to transmit power back to a planet’s surface in a 1941 story. Fast-forward to 2026, though, and space-based lasers powered by the sun are about to get their first real test . Startup Star Catcher is launching its prototype satellite this week, and the company’s goal is somehow even more out...
