These Companies Want to Beam Space-Based Solar Power to Earth Space manufacturing startup Orbital Composites and space energy company Virtus Solis have announced a collaboration to bring space-based solar power even closer to reality. The two have announced a megawatt-scale space-based solar power station that can collect energy from the Sun and beam it down to Earth. The two companies announced a memorandum of understanding via press release this week which will see Virtus develop core technologies like the power station’s electronics and antennas while Orbital will lend its in-space manufacturing expertise. According to the release, Virtus successfully tested wireless...