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Fixed-wing drone in the air, seen from below

PowerLight’s laser power beaming system keeps a drone in the air for hours during Pentagon test flights

Wireless technology could keep military drones flying indefinitely, or be adapted as a directed-energy defense system for countering drones. Read More

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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

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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

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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

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