Swiss-designed solar antennas

A satellite equipped with novel solar antennas developed by the EPFL will be part of the payload on the Russian rocket Cosmos, scheduled for launch September 30 from Plesetsk, Russia. This satellite incorporates advanced technology that combines antenna functions and solar cells on a single surface. [via Innovations-report]

... "Because Asolant is autonomous, providing its own power source with the solar cells on its surface, it also has the potential for many exceedingly practical Earth-based applications.

Sheets of solar antennae on residential rooftops could simultaneously power the home and send and receive TV, radio and wireless phone and internet signals. ... Solar antennas could be used in increasingly power-hungry cell phones. Information from remote regions could be sent via autonomous transmitters".

emily | 1:03 PM | Technology |
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