Robinhood Cofounder Reveals New Space Solar Power Start-Up
Now, with a small team in San Carlos, CA, backed by ten million dollars in personal capital, Aetherflux is preparing to launch a satellite in late 2025 or early 2026 to generate solar power
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His new company, Aetherflux, aims to tackle the ambitious challenge of space-based solar power (SBSP), armed with a recently closed $50 million Series A funding round, which includes
Billionaire Robinhood co-founder launches Aetherflux, a space-based
But Aetherflux wants to build a massive constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, each equipped with a solar array, a battery, and a near-optical infrared laser to transmit the power down...
Aetherflux
Our approach uses many small satellites transmitting power through infrared lasers, allowing high power output and small ground stations. This isn''t your grandfather''s space solar power concept.
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Once in orbit, the team''s Space Solar Power Demonstrator satellite was able to use microwaves to beam solar energy wirelessly to both a receiver on another part of the spacecraft and
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Aetherflux
Aetherflux Inc. is an American renewable energy company founded by Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder and former co-chief executive officer of Robinhood. Based in San Carlos, California, the company seeks to expand upon and commercialize space-based solar power, an old concept of collecting solar power in space with solar power satellites and transmitting it to Earth.
Robinhood''s Billionaire Cofounder Wants To Set Up
But there is a potential solution to this problem: build the solar panels in space, then beam the power back to Earth.
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