Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 14
Researchers Beam Wireless Power From a Moving Airplane
Flight marked first time power has been beamed from a moving aircraft. It was conducted by Virginia-based #startup #OverviewEnergy.
Greater purpose of flight was to demonstrate feasibility of a much grander ambition: to beam power from #space to Earth. Overview plans to launch satellites into geosynchronous orbit to collect unfiltered #solar energy where the sun never sets and then beam this abundance back to humanity
https://spectrum.ieee.org/wireless-power-movin-airplane
Wireless Power Beamed From Moving Aircraft

Can we beam space-based solar power back to Earth? Startup Overview Energy demonstrates wireless power beaming from a moving aircraft.

IEEE Spectrum
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Dec 13

Growing efficiencies of near-infrared #lasers make them preferable over #microwaves, allowing the transmission antenna on the spacecraft to be scaled down from hundreds of meters across to about half a meter 📏. #OverviewEnergy successfully tested a system that transmitted “multiple thousands of watts” of power using a near-infrared laser from an aircraft flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters to a receiver on the ground https://spacenews.com/overview-energy-demonstrates-technologies-for-space-solar-power/

#SBSP #solar #energy

Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power

A space solar power startup has emerged from stealth after demonstrating a key technology for its plans to transmit power from space to the Earth.

SpaceNews
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology NewsDec 10

Overview Energy wants to beam energy from space to existing solar farms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/overview-energy-wants-to-beam-energy-from-space-to-existing-solar-farms/

SpaceNewsDec 10

Overview Energy demonstrates technologies for space solar power

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/overview-energy-demonstrates-technologies-for-space-solar-power/