{"id":208220,"date":"2025-03-09T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/star-catcher-lands-space-florida-support-for-satellite-power-beaming-tests"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:07:01","slug":"star-catcher-lands-space-florida-support-for-satellite-power-beaming-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/star-catcher-lands-space-florida-support-for-satellite-power-beaming-tests","title":{"rendered":"Star Catcher lands Space Florida support for satellite power beaming tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-catcher-lands-space-florida-support-for-satellite-power-beaming-tests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Star Catcher Industries, a startup designing spacecraft to beam solar energy to other satellites in low Earth orbit, has secured funding from Florida\u2019s economic development agency to demonstrate the technology at a former Space Shuttle landing site.<\/p>\n<p>Space Florida is providing a $2 million financial package for the one-year-old venture, Star Catcher CEO Andrew Rush told <em>SpaceNews<\/em> March 7, with most of the funds supporting tests this summer from Space Florida\u2019s Launch and Landing Facility at the Cape \u2014 one of the longest runways in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rush said Star Catcher plans to use the facility to demonstrate its ability to beam hundreds of watts of energy to multiple simulated satellites simultaneously from more than a kilometer away, marking a critical proof point for the Jacksonville, Florida-based startup\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Star Catcher Industries, a startup designing spacecraft to beam solar energy to other satellites in low Earth orbit, has secured funding from Florida\u2019s economic development agency to demonstrate the technology at a former Space Shuttle landing site. Space Florida is providing a $2 million financial package for the one-year-old venture, Star Catcher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}