It must deploy its solar panels, begin operations, and collect data. Finally, it must send its data back. If satellite data does not return to Earth in a timely manner, it’s worthless.

Surely, having a new dish at Canberra is bound to enable the next generation of awe-inspiring instruments. Even with the 0's and 1's of spacecraft, language is everything.

The solar array assembly features a 430.5-square foot parabolic dish coated with 36 plastic foil elliptic mirrors that are just 0.2 mm thick. The HCPVT system prototype captures radiation from the sun ...

Calculations are made to obtain the raw electrical power that can be generated by using an ATS-6 type deployable parabolic dish as a surface for mounting solar cells without seriously interfering with ...

In recent decades, several different concentrated solar thermal power technologies have evolved. They range from a parabolic dish circled by mirrors to tower systems filled with molten salt.

With an improved design for volume manufacturing, the updated Solarflux FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator has commenced field trials to demonstrate it's solar-to-thermal conversion efficiency and ...

After concentrating solar radiation nearly 1,000 times, a reactor above the dish uses that sunlight to convert water into valuable and renewable hydrogen, oxygen, and heat.

The LRESE parabolic dish: the solar reactor converts solar energy to hydrogen with an efficiency of more than 20%, producing around 0.5 kg of "green" hydrogen per day. (Courtesy: LRESE EPFL) A new ...