Since May 24, 2019, SpaceX has been launching satellites into orbit 60 at a time to bolster the ranks of its Starlink megaconstellation – a fleet of networked sats flying in formation that, once ...

A new study examines structural buckling as a control method for solar sails, detailing kirigami cuts, simulations, and experiments to adjust spacecraft orientation efficiently.

A high reflectivity mirror, also known as a supermirror, is a dielectric mirror that has been carefully designed to provide optimal reflectivity while minimizing any scatter and absorption effects.

Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it ...

A new analysis of the Northern Hemisphere’s “albedo feedback” over a 30-year period concludes that the region’s loss of reflectivity due to snow and sea ice decline is more than double what ...

Hot and arid climates benefit most from the combination of agriculture and PV farms. Image: Iberdrola. Combining solar modules and crops in an area is not a new idea in the PV industry since it could ...

As we chatted about previously, we mainly use the reflectivity product of radar, as show above here with those showers leaving eastern Iowa. Most of the time, it shows us rain, but radar picks up ...

Snow accumulation on the Peninsulas and western Southside kept temperatures cooler this week, illustrating albedo's role in local weather and climate.

IT would appear that there may have been some ambiguity in the use of the terms ‘standard reference surfaces’ and ‘standard values’ in our recent article on the above subject 1. The standard reference ...

Observations confirmed that dark coating can reduce satellite reflectivity by half. There are concerns that numerous artificial satellites in orbit could impair astronomical observations, but these ...

Mobile device manufacturers may finally have a reason to evaluate sapphire on an equal footing with traditional strengthened glass, as a new method of dealing with sapphire is said to have lowered its ...