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How US firm plans to beam solar power from orbit after world-first aircraft laser test

In late November, a Cessna turboprop aircraft flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters ...
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Japan mounts a massive laser weapon on a naval test ship

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...
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AC-130 Laser Weapon Test Slip Raises Questions About Its Future

Planned flight testing of a high-energy laser directed energy weapon on a U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has been pushed back again to next year. This once looked set to be the service's ...

'The new era of Infinite Flight begins': Novel tech can wireless charge drones almost 2Km away using a kilowatt-class laser and a lightweight charger

Laser based charging system aims to keep drones airborne indefinitely by delivering kilowatt class power over long distances ...
SUAS News

PowerLight Technologies unveils laser power beaming system to enable ‘infinite flight’ for DoD unmanned aerial systems

PowerLight Technologies, a leader in safe wireless power transfer, today announced the successful development and subsystem testing of its end-to-end laser power beaming system for Unmanned Aerial ...
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China explores using orbiting lasers to power spacecraft on the moon

The far side of the moon and distant Earth, imaged by the 2014 Chang’e-5 T1 mission service module. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China could look to laser power transmission from ...