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AAAS Science “Has it…?”
Read it in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adf3948 To see this story's SSI Facebook comments: Click Here learn more about SPS: here on SSI.org
THE RECENT FACEBOOK KERFUFFLE
[from the SSI Facebook page] Apparently a minor ruckus was caused by a forward of a recent SpaceNews story. Comments here and there ran...
Regulating SPS. Does that say something?
Read it at SpaceNews.com: https://spacenews.com/connecting-the-dots-regulating-space-power-plants/ To see this story's SSI Facebook comments: Click Here learn more about SPS:...
Elon says he hates it but…
Watch it on Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-07-12/elon-musk-hates-this-idea-ali-hajimiri-is-betting-on-it-video To see this story's SSI Facebook comments:...
China’s Xidian University has completed what it calls the world’s first full-link and full-system ground test system for space-based solar power
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The SPS Investment to CalTech
https://www.spacesolar.caltech.edu/ learn more about SPS: here on SSI.org
Joe Haldeman Essay: Peace From On High
Giant Space Settlements? Why? Science Fiction Grandmaster Joe Haldeman, creator of so many classics including The Hemingway Hoax, Camouflage, All My Sins Remembered and, of...
Unintended Consequences and Avoidable Ones
Share this image. Share this need. This is important. Blind Faith has no place in mission-critical engineering and Human lives are mission-critical to the Humanization of...
Why is the org into the “most far flung ideas” the one org pushing for the most important near-term work?
Someone is finally at least talking about starting some kind of Reduced Gravity test hardware! SpaceX? No. Blue Origin? Nope. Boeing+Lockheed=ULA? Nah. ESA? NASA? No and for the...
Yellow, Grey and Brown
Back during the holiday break, about when a young researcher was looking for overview pointers on closed loops, I came across an Irish government proposal on human waste...