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The Next Space Race: Farming Solar Power in the Cosmos
Source: TakePart : Date: 2016-06-28

The Next Space Race: Farming Solar Power in the Cosmos. Scientists are making the big push to send electricity to Earthlings from the final frontier...

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A Robot Army To Build Solar Panels (On The Moon)
Source: Popular Science : Date: 2016-06-21

Simple! Except that Lewis-Weber estimates that building and launching thousands of pounds of solar panels and other equipment into space will be ...

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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Wants To Build Industries In Space To Protect The Earth
Source: Science World Report : Date: 2016-06-07

He also noted that while Earth has the capability of using sunlight for half the day, space can utilize solar power every hour, each day. So, where ...

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10 technologies shaping the future of solar power
Source: Livemint : Date: 2016-06-06

The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA)'s Space Solar Power Systems (SSPS) aims at transmitting energy from orbiting solar panels by 2030.

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Save the planet and make stuff in outer-space
Source: TechEye : Date: 2016-06-03

The Earth shades itself, [whereas] in space you can get solar power 24/7. … The problem with other planets … people will visit Mars, and we will settle ...

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Giant space factories and orbiting solar panels could provide all of our power: Jeff Bezos unveils his plans to 'save the Earth'
Source: Daily Mail : Date: 2016-06-02

Bezos, who founded his own rocket company, Blue Origin, believes we will built giant factories and solar panels in space, moving heavy industries ...

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Jeff Bezos thinks we need to build industrial zones in space in order to save Earth
Source: Recode : Date: 2016-06-01

"The Earth shades itself, [whereas] in space you can get solar power 24/7. ... The problem with other planets … people will visit Mars, and we will settle ...

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Petitioning the US to take the lead in space solar power
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2016-06-01

Human civilization has been very fortunate to have access to readily available fossil fuels to enable the industrial revolution and the rise of our modern ...

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This Week On The Space Show
Source: Space Fellowship : Date: 2016-05-09

Madhu is a strong advocate for articulating the philosophy of space: Scientists and ... The economics of space solar power discussed with Mike Snead.

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How to Harvest Terawatts of Solar Power on the Moon
Source: Discover Magazine : Date: 2016-04-23

The NSS wants to demonstrate the feasibility of space-based solar power, which the US is government taking seriously as an advanced energy ...

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NASA wants to harness the power of solar wind for space travel
Source: Examiner.com : Date: 2016-04-15

The heliopause is known as the outer boundary of our solar system. Conventional space travel can take decades to reach this point. Voyager 1, the ...

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Flying solar carpets and energy-stealing cars: the best green innovations of the week
Source: edie.net : Date: 2016-04-15

The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI) has proposed that 2,500 football pitch-sized solar panels - dubbed 'flying carpets' - be constructed and ...

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A major role for the EU in lunar development
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2016-04-12

Yet, the EU invests much less in civilian space exploration and space ... cislunar development, NASA's Journey to Mars, space-based solar power, ...

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SPPI's 2500 orbital solar “flying carpets” could power the planet
Source: Inhabitat : Date: 2016-04-11

One need not venture to the Cave of Wonders to discover the magic of flying carpets. The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI), a collaboration between ...

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Will orbiting flying carpets light the world?
Source: Phys.Org : Date: 2016-04-08

... build the largest-ever-built space structures," said Harry Atwater, one of three Caltech professors leading the Space Solar Power Initiative, or SSPI.

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Federal legislation to jumpstart space solar power
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2016-04-05

The United States is transitioning from a primary reliance on fossil fuels to greater use of sustainable natural and nuclear energy sources. There are two reasons for this transition. The first reason is that the abnormally high and increasing level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has created scientific uncertainty and concern as to the detrimental impact this may have on the environment and ...

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A Solar Panel Factory On The Moon?
Source: Energy Matters : Date: 2016-03-23

As far-fetched as it may seem, space-based solar electricity production may become a reality if a California high school student's vision of installing a ...

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Heinlein Prize Trust Announce New Solar Power Concept at IAC Toronto
Source: Space Ref (press release) : Date: 2014-09-27

The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (HPT) will unveil a new space solar power concept that it is assisting in developing at the 65th ...

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Space Physicist to speak at local church on Lunar Solar Power
Source: Your Houston News : Date: 2014-09-25

He has conducted extensive research into space/terrestrial solar power and industrialization, moon/solar wind interactions, automation and robotics, ...

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Japanese Construction Company Plans To Have Space Elevator Working By 2050
Source: The Inquisitr : Date: 2014-09-22

Once at the orbiting space station, however, spacecraft would be able to ... Free from the Earth's atmosphere, solar power generators could generate ...

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Are solar power satellites sitting ducks for orbital debris?
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2014-09-22

Proliferation of orbital debris could have adverse effects not just on existing spacecraft but future ones as well. Three authors examine some of the technical and other solutions needed for cleaning up orbital debris that are essential to making applications like space-based solar power possible...

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Rather than desecrate the Arctic should business mine the moon?
Source: The Guardian (blog) : Date: 2014-08-28

The craft aims to carry passengers from Earth to space. ... This would place vast solar power satellites in orbit, and could beam 1 gigawatt of power to a ...

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This Origami&Inspired Solar Panel Folds Up To Bring Cheap Power To Space
Source: Co.Exist : Date: 2014-08-22

Getting solar panels to space is no easy task. This array--which is only 9-feet wide folded up, but can pop open to 82-feet once in space--could deliver ...

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Orbiting solar power plant could unfurl like folded paper, says Nasa
Source: Daily Mail : Date: 2014-08-19

Mr Miura intended this fold for solar arrays, and in 1995 a solar panel with this design was unfolded on the Space Flyer Unit, a Japanese satellite.

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Could These 2 Breakthroughs Solve Solar Power's Biggest Problem?
Source: Motley Fool : Date: 2014-08-18

I recently wrote about Japan's innovative efforts at solar space-based power. This article brings the concept of solar breakthroughs down to earth and ...

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