NASA Takes an In-Depth Look at Space Based Solar Power

NASA Take an In-Depth Look at Space Based Solar Power

by james@pokemoncard.info (Brian Westenhaus)

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has started a Phase I effort to explore the overall viability and advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for an orbital power station project called “SPS Alpha”, or Solar Power Satellite – Alpha. Last August, Artemis Innovation Management Solutions was selected for a NASA NIAC award to dive into the details of what Artemis leader John C. Mankins callls “the first practical solar-power satellite concept.”  Mankins published his pdf report March 27th…Read more...

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