Phased arrays, beam control, link architecture and wireless energy transfer.
03 / Power · Research platform
RF power-beaming research for space-enabled energy systems.
BeamGrid™ applies antenna, phased-array and electromagnetic engineering to the wireless-power layer of space-based energy systems. This is an exploratory research platform, not a claim of a complete orbital power product. The next objective is a bounded, measurable demonstrator.
Engineering questions are being bounded before demonstrator development.
Validate end-to-end efficiency, control, safety and scaling assumptions.
Where BeamGrid™ fits
The energy vision depends on credible RF engineering.
A space-based solar-power architecture would collect energy in orbit, convert it for transmission, steer it across a wireless link and recover it at a receiving aperture. BeamGrid™’s focus is the electromagnetic chain, not every element of the orbital energy system.
Transmit aperture
Study scalable phased-array architectures, element behaviour, thermal constraints and RF distribution.
Beam control
Develop steering, calibration and tracking concepts for a tightly controlled wireless power link.
Receive and verify
Connect the RF link budget to rectenna behaviour, end-to-end efficiency and measurable safety boundaries.
Research maturity
Separate the long-term ambition from the next testable step.
The immediate objective is not grid-scale power from orbit. It is a defensible RF demonstrator that tests the assumptions on which larger architectures depend.
Antenna and RF capability
- Phased-array and beamforming expertise
- Electromagnetic modelling and link analysis
- Wireless-power architecture framing
Bound the demonstrator
- Frequency, range, power and aperture trade space
- Beam-control and calibration concept
- Efficiency, thermal and safety requirements
Measured end-to-end link
- Controlled RF power transfer over a defined range
- Measured aperture, tracking and rectenna performance
- Evidence-based route to a larger demonstrator
Research pathways
Test the physics and architecture before claiming the system.
Controlled wireless-power experiments
Measure aperture behaviour, beam control, conversion efficiency and safety in a bounded test environment.
Energy transfer between future platforms
Explore shorter-range orbital use cases that can expose the engineering constraints progressively.
Architecture grounded in measured RF evidence
Use demonstrator results to inform larger link budgets, apertures, control systems and economic models.
A multidisciplinary demonstrator
RF is central, but the programme needs the whole energy chain.
Phased arrays, RF power and beam-control partners
Rectenna, power electronics and thermal expertise
Space systems, safety and measurement capability
Power-beaming research collaboration
Turn the vision into a bounded demonstrator.
Connect with BeamGrid™ on phased arrays, RF power, rectennas, beam control, system architecture or collaborative research funding.