{"id":239404,"date":"2026-06-21T14:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/china-hits-new-milestone-in-space-solar-power-project"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:06:28","slug":"china-hits-new-milestone-in-space-solar-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/china-hits-new-milestone-in-space-solar-power-project","title":{"rendered":"China hits new milestone in space solar power project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-hits-new-milestone-in-space-solar-power-project2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>XI\u2019AN \u2014 Chinese scientists have taken a major step toward building a space solar power station, a giant power plant in space that could one day send energy back to Earth or to spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from Xidian University in Northwest China\u2019s Shaanxi province has made significant progress on the Sun Chasing project, or \u201cZhuri\u201d in Chinese. The team has developed a ground-based test system for wireless power transmission that can charge multiple moving targets at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>In recent tests, the system achieved a wireless power transmission efficiency of 20.8 percent from direct current to direct current over a distance of 100 meters. It delivered 1,180 watts of power. The team has also built a wireless charging system for drones. In a test, a drone flying at 30 kilometers per hour was able to receive 143 watts of stable power from 30 meters away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XI\u2019AN \u2014 Chinese scientists have taken a major step toward building a space solar power station, a giant power plant in space that could one day send energy back to Earth or to spacecraft. A research team from Xidian University in Northwest China\u2019s Shaanxi province has made significant progress on the Sun Chasing project, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239404","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}