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Could We Build a Dyson Sphere?
Source: Popular Mechanics : Date: 2020-02-28

The mirrors could reflect sunlight to power a generator akin to a solar thermal energy plant but adapted for operation in space. After 40 years of getting ..

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Bezos' Earth Fund Should Invest in These Green Technologies
Source: WIRED : Date: 2020-02-21

Isaac Asimov first floated the idea for space-based solar power in the 1940s. A handful of companies like Solaren and Solar Space Technologies have ...

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Why the International Lunar Decade still makes sense
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2020-02-18

Mankins, in his 2017 NSS Journal of Space Settlement article “New Developments in Space Solar Power,” estimates that levelized cost of power ...

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Space for dominance
Source: THE WEEK : Date: 2020-02-08

The Indian space programme was started in 1962 by Vikram Sarabhai, on his realisation that space was an enabler for sustainable development, and would provide materials and technologies that would lead to better living conditions.There has been tremendous growth in space science and technology, and this ... Another important programme could be solar-powered satellites in ...

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NASA's plan to build stuff in space just took its first step
Source: Popular Science : Date: 2020-02-07

This satellite, which could launch as early as 2022, aims to 3D print two 33-foot beams from which it can unfurl solar panels of unprecedented size for ...

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Scientists Figure Out A Way To Beam Solar Energy From Space
Source: Wonderful Engineering : Date: 2020-01-22

Owing to overpopulation, we are experiencing a severe energy crisis, and still, a huge fraction of Earth cannot enjoy electricity. What if we extract solar ...

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Where the Space Force must go
Source: Politico : Date: 2020-01-17

The newly established Space Force is imperative if we want to avoid war and ... It is projecting power through air, space, and cyber yet does not properly ... it will deploy nuclear propulsion and solar power stations in space within 10 ...

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A Public/Private Program to Develop Space Solar Power
Source: Al Globus and John C. Mankins : Date: 2020-01-14

We propose a public/private partnership to develop and demonstrate space solar power at a sufficiently high technical level that commercial energy providers can subsequently build operational systems for high-energy-cost environments such as remote mining facilities.

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Start-ups join Google, SpaceX and OneWeb to bring new technologies to space
Source: CNBC : Date: 2020-01-13

John Mankins, a former NASA physicist, has long been an advocate of space-based solar power. Satellites would capture solar energy, convert it to ...

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2000 gigawatts of solar power needed for 100% renewables
Source: pv magazine USA : Date: 2020-01-06

Stanford researchers have a plan that would balance 2,000 GW of solar ... The U.S. would need 1,500 GW of utility-scale solar power and 500 GW of ... 0.17% and 0.48% of land for footprint and space, respectively” on a global basis, ...

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China sets sights on space-based solar energy plant
Source: Energy Matters : Date: 2019-12-27

China is reportedly working on a solar energy plant to be based in space, where it will one day be able to send power back to Earth and potentially ...

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China to Build Space Solar Power Station Pioneered by Caltech
Source: The Epoch Times : Date: 2019-12-21

China announced it will begin building megawatt-capable solar power stations in space by 2035, as it intends to displace the United ...

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Can NASA develop a space economy that leaves capitalism's problems behind?
Source: Quartz : Date: 2019-12-17

Most of the major space agencies are compelled by law in their home ... from asteroids, or generating power from solar energy in space—will all be ...

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Five technologies that may alter India in 2020
Source: Livemint : Date: 2019-12-09

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Space Solar Power Systems (SSPS) aims to transmit energy from orbiting solar panels by 2030.

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US vs. China Is the Next Great Space Race
Source: Motley Fool : Date: 2019-12-08

"Great power" rivalries have historically driven investment in space ... things in space, and about developing a solar power infrastructure in space, ...

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India must build satellite to harness solar energy from space,
Source: Times of India : Date: 2019-12-07

So, India should work with friendly nations, which have equal interest, to develop a technology to harness the solar energy from space for sustainable ...

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China to build space-based solar power station by 2035
Source: CGTN : Date: 2019-12-04

China plans to accomplish a 200-tonne megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2035, according to the China Academy of Space ...

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The Race To Construct The First Solar Space Station
Source: OilPrice.com : Date: 2019-12-03

China aims to turn the dream of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov into reality by building a solar power station in space by 2035, according to ...

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China to build space-based solar power station by 2035
Source: Xinhua : Date: 2019-12-02

China plans to accomplish a 200-tonne megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2035, according to the China ...

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How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
Source: WIRED : Date: 2019-12-02

Since the idea for space solar power first cropped up in Isaac Asimov's science fiction in the early 1940s, scientists and engineers have floated dozens ...

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Securing the High Ground in Outer Space
Source: The National Interest Online : Date: 2019-12-01

For example, space solar energy could deliver an unlimited supply of clean energy. If mastering “big data” is the key to the fourth industrial revolution, ...

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The myth of the “new space race”
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2020-02-04

China is investing “aggressively,” we're told, in space-based solar power technology that will allow Beijing to monopolize the world's future energy ...

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The myth of the “new space race”
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2019-11-26

China is investing “aggressively,” we're told, in space-based solar power technology that will allow Beijing to monopolize the world's future energy ...

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2019 Report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Source: Space Ref (press release) : Date: 2019-11-25

Section 3: China's Ambitions in Space: Contesting the Final Frontier - 359 ... of space-based natural resources, and space-based solar power. It would ...

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Is the EU solarizing its digitized economy sans an environmental tax policy?
Source: pv magazine International : Date: 2019-11-21

France's Airbus Defence and Space is building an SPS, which intends to beam earthbound solar energy via high-powered infrared lasers by 2030.

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