NASA Satellite Could Transmit Solar Energy From Orbit

NASA's latest dream? Delivering solar power to Earth via satellites. Agency veteran John Mankins is spearheading the project, which is still in its developmental stages It's called the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array, or SPS-ALPHA for short. As seen in the video above, the satellite -- which looks a bit like a margarita glass -- will capture solar rays while using microwave transmission panels to beam converted solar energy back to Earth in the form of radio waves, all t...