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Japan has successfully became the first nation to demonstrate space-based solar power generation, wirelessly transmitting energy from a 180kg orbital satellite down to a ground station. The OHISAMA ("Sun") project used solar panels in low Earth orbit to convert sunlight into microwaves, which were beamed to Earth to provide a constant, clean energy source unaffected by weather or night cycles.