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Powering Earth from Space: Can We Solve Our Energy Crisis Without Destroying the Environment?
Source: Sustainable Brands : Date: 24-02-2024
Building solar power plants in space would be enormously expensive; but as Andrew Wilson — a researcher at the Advanced Space Concepts Lab at Scotland’s University of Strathclyde — told Space.com, once built, the space solar plants would pay for themselves much faster than any Earth-based renewable power-generating technology; and the space-based harvesters could potentially take in eight times more solar power than Earth-bound solar panels....
Earth Receives First-Ever Power Beam From Orbiting Satellite
Source: ExtremeTech / Adrianna Nine : Date: 16-02-2024
This is a big win for space solar power, which has more energy-grabbing potential than stationary solar panels on Earth.
New NASA Report Suggests We Could See Space-Based Power After 2050
Source: Universe Today : Date: 16-02-2024
The authors suggest looking into the technology every few years, as NASA has been for decades at this point, to see if any specific technical hurdles aren’t being addressed as part of other projects. For now, they didn’t find any. But plenty of technologies that weren’t even mentioned in the report, such as asteroid mining or deployable lightweight structures, could also fundamentally change the economic calculations. One thing is for sure – whatever future reports on the viability of SBSP will have plenty of new advances to consider.
NASA’s Space Solar Power Plan Lacks Ambition
Source: The National Interest / Peter Garretson : Date: 15-02-2024
he NASA report is bizarrely tone-deaf and disconnected from the agency’s own Moon-to-Mars infrastructure objectives. Unlike the European Space Agency, which has done excellent work visualizing the link between a lunar base camp and Space Solar Power, the NASA study does not consider any unity with the Artemis Accords, the America-led project to return to the Moon.
Wireless Energy Transmission from Space Becomes a Reality
Source: ISP Today : Date: 15-02-2024
In a groundbreaking experiment, solar power is being transmitted to Earth from a satellite in orbit using microwave technology. The Microwave-based ...
GB's CASSIOPeiA space-based solar concept validated
Source: Power Engineering International : Date: 09-02-2024
“This study is a major step forward in the development of our space-based solar power system,” James Cornish, business manager at Frazer-Nash, which also has delivered studies for the European Space Agency’s Solaris concept, adds: “It is clear from out work that Space Solar’s solution is robust… We’re confident in Space Solar being able to start their development programme with good knowledge of the expected technical and economic performance of their products.”
Research group wins space solar power award
Source: University of Waterloo : Date: 09-02-2024
The paper developed by the Waterloo group addresses a growing area of lunar research. To reduce the volume of materials that need to be transported to the moon in future missions it has been proposed that locally found raw materials be extracted, refined and used for energy, life support and construction. The emerging fields of In-Situ Resource Processing and In-Situ Resource Utilisation are essential to the future exploration and development of the moon.
Arthur D. Little Pioneers Clean Energy From Space With Direct Sun Reflection
Source: Arthur D. Little : Date: 08-02-2024
Arthur D. Little (ADL) has announced the completion of a ground-breaking study into the production of clean energy from space via Direct Sun Reflection (DSR). DSR is a way of producing clean energy from space via a constellation of orbiting mirrors that can accurately reflect sunlight back to earth. By focusing this sunlight on pre-existing solar farms, DSR can effectively add an additional two hours of bright sunshine a day. This means that solar farms could receive up to 60% more energy a year without any additional infrastructure cost.
Could parasols in space counter global warming? Israeli scientists want to find out
Source: The Times of Israel : Date: 07-02-2024
A team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have suggested a “cool” fix for global warming — a series of sunshades launched into space to dim some of the incoming rays.
At dusk and dawn: Space reflectors to illuminate future solar power farms
Source: Yourweather.co.uk : Date: 07-02-2024
Kilometre-wide reflectors orbiting the Earth could improve the output of future large-scale solar farms by reflecting additional sunlight towards them at dawn and dusk, and accelerate the move towards net-zero say space engineers from the University of Glasgow.
Space Solar Takes Major Step Forward with its CASSIOPeiA
Source: Space Solar : Date: 07-02-2024
The UK’s leading space-based solar power (SBSP) company, Space Solar, today announces the results of a detailed engineering design and analysis study which confirms the performance characteristics for its CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite concept. The results are further supported by Space Solar’s ongoing wireless power beaming hardware test programme. The study, delivered in partnership with Frazer-Nash Consultancy, has further advanced Space Solar’s design, looking in detail at both ground and spacecraft systems.
Did a NASA study pull the plug on space solar power?
Source: The Space Review / Jeff Foust : Date: 06-02-2024
The NASA study examined two architectures previously proposed for SBSP systems, one “innovative” approach that uses heliostats to collect and focus sunlight and the other, more “mature,” concept that uses planar arrays. Each system would generate two gigawatts of power. The study examined the costs to build, operate, and eventually decommission each system, based on various assumptions. The study’s results both disappointed and frustrated supporters of space solar power.
Space reflectors to boost output of large-scale solar farms
Source: Innovation News Network : Date: 05-02-2024
Solspace: Space reflectors could be used to reflect sunlight towards future solar power farms at dawn and dusk, accelerating the transition to net zero.
Launch Systems, Satellite Manufacturing Way Forward in Indo-France Ties
Source: Geospatial World : Date: 05-02-2024
Interview with Dr. Namrata Goswami: China has the most ambitious space program today. They have announced their goals of becoming the lead actor in space by 2049. They have plans to establish a base on the Moon by 2036; a human Mars mission by 2045, generate solar power from space to earth by 2050, and establish nuclear propelled space crafts by 2050 as well.
The US Space Force Is Also Catching Space Solar Fever
Source: CleanTechnica : Date: 04-02-2024
Research teams from the US, China, and the UK are among those chasing the space solar rainbow. The attraction of space solar is the potential for 24/7 solar power at the multi-gigawatt scale, all year long. ....a hookup between Virtus Solis and Orbital is in the works, that’s a good guess. On February 1, at the SpaceCOM conference in Orlando, Florida, Virtus Solis let slip that it is working with Orbital Composites on a space solar pilot project. If all goes according to plan, the project will be up and running in 2027, deploying Virtus’s robot-enabled fabrication system with Orbital’s 3D printing.
Country aims to shine in space-based solar power tech to boost clean energy
Source: Zhao Lei (China Daily) : Date: 04-02-2024
Multiple teams in China are currently focused on technologies needed for building and running a space-based solar power facility, which will allow the sun's energy to be captured nonstop, something that isn't possible from Earth, said Hou Xinbin, a senior researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing and a member of the Committee of Space Solar Power of the Chinese Society of Astronautics.
2027 Orbital Space Solar Power Demo by Virtus Solis and Orbital Composites
Source: Next Big Future / Brian Wang : Date: 04-02-2024
Silicon Valley startup Orbital Composites and Michigan-based Virtus Solis Technologies announced plans Feb. 1 to conduct a 2027 space-based solar power demonstration. The 2027 mission is designed to showcase critical power-generation technologies including in-space assembly of solar panels and transmission of more than one kilowatt to Earth. The 2027 mission will be a precursor to large-scale commercial megawatt-class solar installations in space by 2030.
Sun-Chasing Project Innovates OMEGA-based SSPS Prototype
Source: Mirage News : Date: 02-02-2024
In 2022, a team of researchers from Xidian University in China has completed a full-link and full-system ground demonstration and verification system for an SSPS, named the Sun-Chasing Project. Their study, recently published in Engineering, introduces the design concept of OMEGA 2.0 SSPS, the related key technologies, and the development of ground demonstration and verification system for OMEGA 2.0.
Orbital Composites and Virtus Solis announce space-based solar power demonstration
Source: SpaceNews : Date: 02-02-2024
Space-Based Demonstration. The 2027 mission is designed to showcase critical power-generation technologies including in-space assembly of solar panels ...
This startup plans to beam solar power from space
Source: FastCompany / Adele Peters : Date: 02-02-2024
Virtus Solis aims to pilot its space-based solar tech in 2027. The company plans to put solar panels in medium Earth orbit, and then use robots to automatically assemble them into large arrays—ultimately, hundreds of thousands of satellites connected together like Lego blocks. Each hexagonal satellite, around five feet wide, has built-in solar panels on one side, electronics in the middle, and antennas on the other side.
Essential Guide to Space-Based Solar Power | Technology & Market
Source: By Lars Schellhas : Date: 02-02-2024
Space-Based Solar Power or SBSP could solve all the problems current renewable energy systems like wind and solar are facing. Including intermittency, seasonality, and storage – and still, most people don’t even know that this technology exists. From time to time, we must take a look to the horizon to broaden our perspective. Sometimes, we can’t see the bigger picture. We need to zoom out to find “outworldly” solutions which help to solve our problems. This is true for the energy sector, but equally so for ever other sector.
Clean Energy From Space With John Mankins - The Future of Space-Based Solar Power
Source: YouTube / This Week in Space : Date: 26-01-2024
Climate change has become a top priority for all of us, including NASA. Space solar power—beaming energy from space 24 hours per day—has become a real possibility and is being studied internationally by the US, Europe, Japan, and China. It promises to provide a zero-emissions, zero-carbon source of energy worldwide—but it will take significant investment, development, and commitment. A recent NASA-backed study was positive but careful with its conclusions, and John Mankins, one of the first researchers of SSP in the US who continues to work on the concept, joins us to address the report and to talk about the possible future of limitless, clean, and affordable energy for a hungry world.
Expert Q&A: space based solar power
In-Depth
Source: The Engineer / Jon Excell : Date: 25-01-2024
Experts: Dr Nicol Caplin - ESA, Sam Adlen - Space Solar, Paul Febvre - Satellite Applications Catapult. NC: The primary driver for space-based solar power (SBSP) is the pressing and immediate need to find an alternative energy source that could wean humanity from its dependency on fossil fuels. ESA’s Solaris project aims to provide Earth with a limitless, renewable energy source. The Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCoE) £26/MWh is around one third that of large scale nuclear, on a par with intermittent wind and terrestrial solar and significantly less than other baseload technologies such as nuclear fission.
ESA SOLARIS in Brussels
Source: LinkedIn: Solaris : Date: 24-01-2024
Recent studies have repeatedly shown that Space-based Solar Power could be a a major driver of European space development in all the key capability areas that are considered as needed to level-up Europe to being a global space power. These include low-cost, high-cadence launch, high-power energy generation, very large-scale infrastructure development, robotic assembly/manufacturing, wireless power beaming, in-space transportation, servicing and recycling as well as 'workers in space' and the industrialisation of the Moon for the production and launch of Solar Power Satellite hardware.
KARI successfully tests world’s longest-distance wireless power transfer
Source: Pulse : Date: 24-01-2024
Researchers at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) have successfully tested its wireless power transfer of 1.81 kilometers in space, the longest distance so far that goes beyond 1.5 kilometers set by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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