Makes me think the space force has a laser..
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We flew nuclear reactors on one or two satellites. The Russians flew it as a matter of course to power their radar surveillance satellites, but they had a few problems with on-orbit failures and a nasty de-orbit with junk all across Canada, so the taste for that became outworn.
Most of the energy technology is known, or openly discussed.
I'd have to refresh that reference. But look, anything truly remarkable would be classified, and Q wouldn't mention it, even by implication. "Going forward in order to look back"? You have to be careful for meanings that are not apparent. I once worked on a technical project that I summarized as "trying to see the invisible through the opaque." A clever handle, and entirely technically correct, but try to guess what that was.
We were trying to visualize airplane wake turbulence when our line of sight would be through clouds. Pretty close to an insoluble problem, though we did get some patents from the research.