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Could solar power stations floating in space be the answer to our energy needs?
Source: The Independent : Date: 26-11-2020

A possible way around this would be to generate solar energy in space. There are many advantages to this. A space-based solar power station could ...

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Race is on to make satellites that generate, transmit solar power
Source: Balkan Green Energy News : Date: 25-11-2020

The European Space Agency is evaluating ideas for the feasibility of space-based solar power, the United Kingdom funded research into the ...

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Review: Spacepower Ascendant
Source: The Space Review / Jeff Foust : Date: 24-11-2020

Joshua P. Carlson offers a scenario where China develops lunar resources and space-based solar power, becoming the dominant country on space and Earth by ...

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Solar Power Stations in Space could help serve our energy needs, says study
Source: TMR Research Blog : Date: 23-11-2020

The concept of solar power stations in the space has been long. Developed in the 1920s by a Russian scientist, the concept was mainly was an ...

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Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
Source: Livescience.com : Date: 23-11-2020

Artist's conceptions of a solar power satellite, dubbed the Integrated Symmetrical Concentrator SPS concept. (Image: © NASA). It sounds like science ...

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Beaming Solar Power From Space to Earth Is a Sci-Fi Dream That's Getting Closer
Source: Motherboard : Date: 21-11-2020

Theoretically, space-based solar power could provide a constant source of green, sustainable energy to the entire planet, day or night, which has ...

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A Solar-Powered Rocket Might Be Our Ticket to Interstellar Space
Source: WIRED : Date: 21-11-2020

A Solar-Powered Rocket Might Be Our Ticket to Interstellar Space. The idea for solar thermal propulsion has been around for decades, but researchers ...

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Solar power stations in space: The answer to our energy needs?
Source: TechCentral : Date: 20-11-2020

It sounds like science-fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, ...

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Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov's dream come true
Source: Design Products & Applications : Date: 19-11-2020

The UK government commissions new research into solar power space stations which offer the potential for an unlimited and constant zero carbon ...

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Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
Source: Yahoo Eurosport UK : Date: 19-11-2020

It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, ...

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UK launches research into space-based solar power station
Source: Energy Live News - Energy Made Easy : Date: 18-11-2020

The space-based solar power systems would use very large solar satellites to collect renewable energy, convert it into radio waves and safely beam it ..

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UK enters the solar space race
Source: pv magazine International : Date: 17-11-2020

The government has commissioned a study into the feasibility of generating solar power in space and beaming the energy down to earth now that ..

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Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon
Source: CNBC : Date: 16-11-2020

According to Steve Johnson, director of the Space Nuclear Power and ... “Fission surface power is necessary in places where solar power, wind and ...

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The UK begins research into space-based solar power
Source: Neowin : Date: 15-11-2020

“The Sun never sets in space, so a space solar power system could supply renewable energy to anywhere on the planet, day or night, rain or shine. It is ...

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UK government commissions space solar power stations research
Source: GOV.UK : Date: 14-11-2020

The UK government has commissioned new research into space-based solar power (SBSP) systems that would use very large solar power satellites ...

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Is space mining the eco-friendly choice?
Source: Astronomy Magazine : Date: 12-11-2020

On the horizon, he envisions a solar-powered lunar base capable of producing the gigawatt-level power needed for mining. Moonbaselayout. A potential ...

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Space Force Launches First Astronaut on the SpaceX Crew-1 Mission This Week
Source: ClearanceJobs / Petewr Suciu : Date: 10-11-2020

One of the first spacecraft that could be tested at the DelSel could be the ARFL's Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstration and Research Project ...

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AFRL Ponders Solar Power Beaming For Lunar Patrol Sat
Source: Breaking Defense : Date: 06-11-2020

But the ability to collect solar energy in space, convert it to microwaves (or lasers) and beam it to collectors (batteries) for consumption also could prove ...

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US Air Force opens new space lab
Source: C4ISRNet : Date: 05-11-2020

One spacecraft in development that will benefit from these new structures is AFRL's Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstration and Research ...

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Aerospace Corp.'s James Vedda, Karen Jones: US Should Consider Space Solar Power Investments
Source: ExecutiveBiz : Date: 30-10-2020

Jones, who co-authored a paper titled “Space-Based Solar Power: a Near-Term Investment Decision” with Vedda, said the U.S. needs to allocate funds ...

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Ensuring Safety on Earth from Nuclear Sources in Space
Source: International Atomic Energy Agency : Date: 29-10-2020

There are aspirations to use nuclear power sources to support human colonies on the moon or Mars. “Solar panels are not sufficient for such ...

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Report: US Should Consider Benefits Of Space Solar Power
Source: Aviation Week (Subscription required) : Date: 29-10-2020

The U.S. should build a coordinated and consistent approach to developing space-based solar power, beginning with a series of flight experiments ...

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Aerospace Corp. calls for collaboration in space solar power
Source: SpaceNews / Debra Werner : Date: 28-10-2020

The concept of space solar power “evolved over a very long time and is probably a couple of generations away from being hooked into the terrestrial ...

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From the Truman Proclamation to the Artemis Accords: steps toward establishing a bottom-up framework for governance in space
Source: The Space Review / Alfred B. Anzaldúa and Cristin Finnigan : Date: 27-10-2020

Beyond material gain, however, access to boundless space resources like solar energy, minerals, and volatiles could also have a profound positive ...

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NASA looks to use Electric Propulsion for future Space Travel
Source: Clarksville Online : Date: 26-10-2020

An electric propulsion system uses energy collected by either solar arrays (solar electric propulsion) or a nuclear reactor (nuclear electric propulsion) ...

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