Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech NASA’s latest crop of space technology grants will fund work on projects ranging from power-beaming lasers for lunar missions to… Read More
PowerLight is hitting its targets with a power beaming system that uses lasers Wireless power transmission has been the stuff of science fiction for more than a century, but now PowerLight Technologies is… Read More
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Boeing leads $10 million funding round for BridgeSat laser communications venture Boeing HorizonX Ventures is leading a $10 million investment round to boost BridgeSat, a Denver-based satellite communications company that aims… Read More
nLight prices IPO at $16 per share as laser-maker raises $96 million in strong debut nLight priced its initial public offering above the expected range at $16 per share on Thursday night as the Vancouver,… Read More
Charging your smartphone with lasers? Engineers say it’s not as scary as it sounds Engineers at the University of Washington have demonstrated that it’s possible to charge up your smartphone using laser beams. Perhaps… Read More
LaserMotive lights up first product — transmitting power over fiber with lasers LaserMotive, a company known for using lasers to transmit power through the air, is expanding to a new medium: fiber-optic… Read More
LaserMotive to work on NASA power-beaming project LaserMotive, a company south of Seattle developing ways of beaming power via lasers, has been named as one of the… Read More
