The Space Studies Institute has been releasing cleaned, searchable, readable volumes from our decades of being a United States depository of NASA, DOE, DOD and contractor Space-Based Solar Power research. There are many already and there are hundreds more to come, given time and money.

So what are THESE things? Why aren’t they put in the Reports Library list with the others? What makes them so different?

When you look into the government reports, you see that they mostly all start with a mention of Dr. Peter Glaser, the man who did the real first patentable work on the subject. But then the government documents tend to focus in on some distinct aspect of the SPS/SBSP reference designs, or take a deep dive into some very singular sub-piece of the whole.

What THESE documents are more about is the bigger pictures and also some alternative specifics to the standard reference designs that could get the final desired product – an actual in-orbit SPS – doing the most good for the most people on planet Earth more quickly.

Another difference is that these journals were not published by taxpayer dollars, these were published by the support of people around the globe who worked with and for an organization called The SUNSAT Energy Council.

SUNSAT Energy Council formation meeting. Photo from L5 News April 1978

SUNSAT was founded in late 1977 by Dr. Peter Glaser to promote production of electric power on earth from solar energy captured in space.

This is obvious and simple for anyone reading this page today, but at the time it was an odd concept and Dr. Glaser knew that it needed great minds to get the word out on many levels.

The Council was comprised of some of the biggest names in ‘the space’: Glaser, Brown, Nagatomo, Canough, Maryniak, Cutler, Koomanoff, Caristo-Verrill, Freeman, Leonard, Mayur and more. They did conferences, they gathered and taught at the early ISUs, they did private closed-door meetings in their association with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and they brought SPS to the public.

You have to remember though, that the world was not like it is now, there was no internet, and no website or discord was around to bring the latest works to all of the right people inside and in the orbit of SUNSAT. So, in 1980 the council created a special exclusive journal. Originally titled “Space Solar Power Review” (later shortened to simply “Space Power”) the quarterly releases covered what the real movers of the movement were thinking and doing.

Space Solar Power Review releases were not always perfectly timed for delivery on each quarter, they seemed to have been released when enough information was worth passing along. But they were expertly edited, first by Dr. John Freeman of the Space Solar Power Research Program at Rice University, then by Dr. Andrew Cutler of the Space Studies Institute and the NASA Space Engineering Center at the University of Arizona, and finally by Dr. Gay Canough, particle physicist from University of Notre Dame (the person whose work was behind the N.E.A.R. mission’s early plans, a founding faculty member of the ISU, the woman who founded Extraterrestrial Materials, Inc. and put together the ties between Dr. Alan Binder and SSI for the water-finding Lunar Prospector probe, who calculated the terrestrial space equivalents for John Mankin’s NASA “Fresh Look” SPS study, co-founder of the New York Solar Industry Association and trainer of literally hundreds of hands-on Solar Energy professionals in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and… the wonderful person who scoured her offices to fill in the gaps in the SSI collection with her personal copies of Space Power so that we could do this very special tribute on ssi.org).

Say a hello of thanks to Dr. Canough…

Dr. Gay Canough of Extraterrestrial Materials, Inc. and ETM Solar, New York

Space Solar Power Review / Space Power was a scholarly journal, there was occasionally some greek math, but for the most part anyone with an interest could pick up a copy and get significant value out of it. The problem with this legendary journal has never been the difficulty of the content, it has only been… the getting of a copy to read.

And now, thanks to donations to the SSI Research Library over the years, and to Dr. Canough’s recent assistance, we proudly deliver your 14 years of copies of Space Solar Power Review / Space Power, the Journal of the SUNSAT Energy Council.

Special Thanks along with Dr. Canough go out to former SSI Executive Vice President and President of the SUNSAT Energy Council Gregg Maryniak, to John Mankins, President of Mankins Space Technology and all around SPS dare-we-say-‘god’, and to Dr. Paul Jaffe of DARPA for getting this project ball rolling with his question in London: “When is SSI going to release Space Power, already?”, everyone really interested in this realm should consider Dr. Jaffe’s “Power Beaming: History, Theory, And Practice” written along with Tom Nugent, Bernd Strassner and Mitchel Szazynski and available on Amazon (ISBN: 978-9811243103).

In putting together this new collection, in reading every single page as we cleaned them for you, we came to understand why Dr. Jaffe thought these are still so important… it’s a little annoying but also very interesting and helpful to be able to see that the most useful things have not changed.

	Volume 1, Numbers 1&2 Peter Glaser, Franz Brotzen, PQ Collins, William Colson, David Criswell, John Deutch, John Freeman, Robert Frosch, Don Fuqua, GM Hanley, Jeff Hester, Fred Koomanoff, Christopher Kraft, Rashmi Mayur, Brian O’Leary, Gerard O’Neill, Robert Piland, Carl Sandahl, Sedgwick Simons, Dexter Sutherland, Peter Vajk, John Zinn
	Volume 1, Number 3 Peter Glaser, AC Aikin, DL Akin, John Freeman, CH Jackman, LE Livingston, Charles Mack, RH Miller, Gardner Moyer, Frederick Osborn, Thomas O. Paine, Thad Pugh, R Sperber, Gordon Woodcock
	Volume 1, Number 4 RE Beverly, Franz Brotzen, SA Curtis, SK Das, Hubert Davis, M Ettenberg, JM Grebowsky, WE Haupin, John Freeman, N Jarret, Ramshi Mayur, WK Muench, JE Rankin, J Ruth, PJ Tallerico, W Westphal, WL Wilson
	Volume 2, Numbers 1&2 Peter Glaser, Bertrand Chatel, Maurice Claverie, B Clayton, Paul Combes, JW Dees, IH Diederiks-Verschoor, Lewis Duncan, Alain Dupas, IV Franklin, RV Gelsthorpe, Klaus Heiss, Bjorn Kaupang, Deitrich Koelle, Frederick Koomanoff, DJ Kozakoff, IR Lindsay, John Lodgson, Rashmi Mayur, A Orszag, Marc Pelegrin, JM Schuchardt, J Rath, KK Reinhartz, AW Rudge, Leo Thourel, JR Williams
	Volume 2, Number 3 Peter Glaser, Kames Barclay, Ken Bossong, JR Brownell, LM Duncan, Norman Gary, WE Gordon, TE Leontis, Louis Livingston, Frederick Osborn, Edwin Roedder, Robert Spear, MJ Stoil, LE Vaaler, Becky Westerdahl
	Volume 2, Number 4 Peter Glaser, CH Chan, Richard Flower, John Freeman, WL Harries, Rashmi Mayur, Frederick Osborn, Charles Rush, Ray Williamson, Stefi Weisburd, Adam Wasserman, JW Wilson
	Volume 3, Number 1 RE Beverly, Edward Bock, David Criswell, John Freeman, Aaron Goldberg, Beverly Goldstein, Edward Walbridge
	Volume 3, Number 2 SK Cox, JM Davis, Edward Finch, John Freeman, David Kelland, Stephen Klineberg, AW Love, RM Welch, Gordon Woodcock
	Volume 3, Number 3 Peter Glaser, WJ Borucki, LA Capone, John Freeman, D Hollenbach, RG Keesee, T Kropp, C Park, L Pfister, CA Riegel, OB Toon, RP Turco, RC Witten, HT Woodward
	Volume 3, Number 4 Tribute to Frederick Osborn, Jr. by Peter Glaser and Edward Finch. GD Arndt, David Hannah, DJ Jezewski, Jer-Nan Juang, EM Kerwin, Janet Jones-Oliveira, Shyh Jong Wang
	Volume 4, Numbers 1&2 Dr. Peter Glaser, Dr. William Brown,Magoto Nagatomo, Maurice Claerie, Frank Davidson, Alain Dupas, CAS Fawcett, Derek Fraser, Jerry Grey, Maxwell Hunter, Peter Jankowitsch, D Kassing. John Lodgson, Ramshi Mayur, Manabu Nakagawa, J Ortner, Robert Piland, Ing Stoy, CGJ Wagner-Bartak, David C. Webb, Gordon Woodcock
	Volume 4, Number 3 Peter Glaser, Makotro Nagatomo, CG Adler, JW Byrd, Larry Chidester, Hon. Edward Finch, John Freeman, WL Harries, WE Meador, Nancy Wood
	Volume 4, Number 4 Peter Glaser, Arnold Baker, Victor Ferkiss, N Jasentuliyana, Arthur Kantrowitz, Ramon Lopez, Robin Ludwig, Jack Salmon
	Volume 5, Number 1 Peter Glaser, GD Arndt, JP Biersack, David Criswell, D Fink, Gerald D. Griffin, EM Kerwin, Joseph Schleimer, M Stadele, RD Waldron
	Volume 5, Number 2 Special Edition from the 1984 ISAS Space Energy Symposium Professor Makoto Nagatomo, Takashi Abe, Saburo Adachi, H Arashi, Yashiro Akiba, Hiroyuki Fujisada, Yuko Fujita, H Hashimoto, Shintaro Hayashi, N Higuchi, M Ishigame, I Ishii, Kiyohiko Itoh, N Kaya, T Kida, Ken Kikuchi, Y Kimura, Hisashi Kudo, Isao Kudo, Kyoichi Kuriki, Kajuo Maeno, H Matsumoto, S Miyatake, Kei Mori, Yoshihiro Nakamura, T Obayashi, Yasutaka Ogawa, Takeo Ohgane, Y Ohkami, Y Oka, Akira Onoe, Toru Ozeki, Yasushi Shimanukim, Nobuhiro Tanatsugu, Takio Tomimasu, Masamichi Yamashita, Y Yamashita, Yasunobu Yoshida
	Volume 5, Number 3 Professor Makoto Nagatomo, Sam Battista, David Byman, John Freeman, Thomas Kunz, Trevor Lloyd-Evans, Carl Rosene, H Tabor, Fred Wasserman
	Volume 5, Number 4 Special Edition from the 1985 ISAS Space Energy Symposium Professor Makoto Nagatomo, Saburo Adachi, Hidenori Akiyama, Yuko Fujita, T Hirano, Kenji Horii, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Toshihiko Nakamura, K Kamimura, S Kaminishi, Ken Kikuhci, Y Kobayashi, Kyoichi Kuriki, Y Matsui, T Matsutani, M Nakagawa, Hitoshi Nakamura, I Nakatani, J Onoda, Toru Ozeki, K Sakurai, Yuzi Sato, A Suzuki, Shigeyuki Takagi, A Ushirokawa, Chobei Yamabe, Yasunobu Yoshida
	Volume 6, Number 1 Solar Power Satellites Built Of Lunar Materials A Space Power Special Edition of a study conducted by Space Research Associates, Inc. For the Space Studies Institute
	Volume 6, Number 2 Peter Glaser, GD Arndt, Sam Battista, William C “Bill” Brown, David Byman, Richard Dickenson, Deborah Patterson, EM Kerwin, Thomas Kunz, Gerard K. O’Neill, John M Osepchuk, Fred Wasserman
	Volume 6, Number 3 Saburo Adachi, Hiroyuki Arai, Naohis Goto, DP Hutchinson, Kiyohiko Itoh, N Kaya, I Kimura, T KimuraH Matsumoto, S Miyatake, M Nagatomo, Masamitsu Nakajima, T Obayashi, Takeo Ohgane, Kunio Sawaya, PA Stats, KL Vander Sluis, Osami Wada
	Volume 6, Number 4 Peter Glaser, Makoto Nagatomo, William C “Bill” Brown, MS Imamura, BH Khoshaim
	Volume 7, Number 1 New Editor Andrew Hall Cutler, Peter Glaser, William C “Bill” Brown. Gregg Maryniak, Yoshihiro Arakawa, Christian Belouet, Frank Davidson, Pierre Delhaes, Serge Flandrois, John W Freeman, Kyoichi Kuriki, Claude Meschi, Hiroaki Obara, Brian Tillotson, Gerry Webb, Kimito Yochikawa
	Volume 7, Number 2 Takashi Abe, Arnaldo Angelini, Alain Bossavit, Taizo Hirano, Hiroshi Homma, Kenji Horii, Kiyohiko Itaoh, S Kondo, M Misawa, Makoyo Nagatomo, Yasutaka Ogawa, Tatsuo Okamoto, V Poulek, Akio Suzuki, Akio Ushirokawa, Chobei Yamabe, Masai Yamauchi
	Volume 7, Numbers 3&4 S Chandrashekar, Samiran Das, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Gert Eggers, Albert Harrison, Liu Ling-Hui, Bevin McKinney, Kelly Parks, William MacDonald, Yutaka Momose, I Selvaraj, Douglas Sparks, Nobuhiro Tanatsugu, Gordon Woodcock
	Volume 8, Numbers 1&2 Special Edition: Papers from the IAF International Conference on Space Power, Cleveland, OH, USA, 5-7 June 1989 Samin Anghaie, William Baggenstoss, Sheila Bailey, J Blumenberg, J Bottrill, JWN Chi, Stephen Debbrock, Lucien Deschamps, Nils Diaz, Brian Donovan, Edward Dugan, Dennis Flood, Jerry Grey, William Harper, F Ho, PA Iles, Elliot Kennel, Praveen Jain, H Kuninaka, K Kuriki, Thomas Labus, JR Lance, Geoffrey Landis, F Lindner, JM Livingston, BC Maglich, Isaac Maya, M Morgan, J Nering, J Norwood, Ronald Lovely,Y Nozaki, Mark Perry, Anthony Pietsch, C Powell, EL Ralph, ML Ramalingam, Richard Secunde, Jack Slaby, M Tanju, Gary Turner, S Weingartner, JF Wett, YCM Yeh
	Volume 8, Number 3 Special Edition: Papers from the IAF International Conference on Space Power, Cleveland, OH, USA, 5-7 June 1989 Dana Andrews, Joseph Applebaum, Gary Bennett, DJ Bents, Frederick Best, William C “Bill” Brown, K Chang, EJ Conway. Carl Erdman, Vladimir Georgevich, RJ DeYoung, Dennis Flood, Lyle Jenkins, JC McCleary, Claude Poher, MA Pollock
	Volume 8, Number 4 Special Edition: Papers from the IAF International Conference on Space Power, Cleveland, OH, USA, 5-7 June 1989 Yoshiyuki Abe, Yuichiro Asano, LI Boehman, M Joseph Cork, Shintaro Eny. Osami Nomura, Masayuki Kamimoto, Katsuhiko Kanari, Lisa Kohout,ET Mahefkey. Niroshi Muramoto, Masahito Oguma, Oktay Yesil, David Pickett, R Ponnappan, Kotaro Tanaka, Nobuhiro Tanatsugu, Hamid Torab, James Turi, Adrian Tylim
	Volume 9, Number 1 Andrew Hall Cutler, Francis Baron, Harvey Bloomfield, Robert Carpenter, LL Grigsby. Jordin Kare, Gregg Maryniak, DJ McConnell, Barbara McKissock, RM Nelms. Ralph Philippi, GY Eastman, DM Ernst, RM Shauback, GB Sheble, Werner Tillmetz, JE Toth. James Turi
	Volume 9, Numbers 2&3 Makoto Nagatomo, PR Ahlf, F Carre, S Chaudourne, Mengu Cho, Denis Connolly, Kunihisa Eguchi, Karl Faymon, Tsutomo Fujiwara, Francis Graham, Gerald Halpert, Daniel Hastings, Sumio Kato, Nobuyuki Kaya, P Keirle, Krishna Kumar. Hiroshi Matsumoto, BD Meredith, Jack Mondt, Osamu Murugishi, Ira Myers, Tatsusaburo Nakamura, Hiroshi Oda, Sachio Ogiwara, E Proust, Yoshinori Sakai, RJ Saucillo, Subbarao Surampudi, Yasuhiro Takeshita, Z Tilliette, B Vrillon
	Volume 9, Number 4 V Badesco, Kitt Carlton-Wippern, John Dearien, YK Gontarev, Geoffrey Landis, Stephen M Lord, YV Navroozov, VF Prisnyakov, VN Serebryansky, Judson Whitbeck, Jesko Von Windheim, Walter Venable
	Volume 10, Number 1 KP Bogus, Lars Broman, F Carre, S Chaudourne, Louis Cropp, Andrew Hall Cutler, RJ deYoung, G Dudley, Donald Gallup, Stephen Gillett, J Hainesm D Kassig, P Keirle, JH Lee, Albert Marshall, E Proust, GL Schuster, D O’Sullivan, Z Tillette, B Vrillon, GH Walker, MD Williams
	Volume 10, Number 2 Joseph Applebaum, Albert Harrison, Martin Hoffert, Lyle Jenkins, Murali Kadiramangalam, Geoffrey Landis, S Ortner, Charles Owens, S Krause, Seth Potter, Robert Richardson, Dana Rothchild, Joshua Summitt, Francesco Tubiello
	Volume 11, Number 1 William C “Bill” Brown, Roger Bezdek, Stephen Gillett, David Kuck, Raymond Leonard, AV Rachnikov, VA Vanke, Robert Wendling, AA Zaporozhets
	Volume 11, Number 2 V Badescu, Renato Bosisio, Yves Cassivi, Q Collins, Lucien Deschamps, Fadhel Ghannouchi, Anatoly Korteev, Anatoly Kostylev, Rashmi Mayur, Makoto Nagatomo, BA Osadin, Seth Potter, R Tomkins, Vladimir Tverscoy, Yoshiki Yamagiwa
	Volume 11, Numbers 3&4 Peter Glaser, Makoto Nagatomo, R Akiba, J Applebaum, A Arismunadar , L Cabaret, FP Chiaromonte, P Collins, David Criswell, M Crutchik, Ronald Cull, Andrew Cutler, JC DeYoung, M Ducet, P Dupuis, Peter Kaloupis, M Kaya, Christian Koenig, Yuri Kruzhilin, Y Kuroda, Geoffrey Landis, Leonid Latyshev, A Laurens, H Matsumoto, Peter Nolan, Glenn Olds, V Prisniakov, Valentin Rybakov, Andrey Smakhtin, Johann Spies, JD Taylor, Marcel Toussaint
	Volume 12, Numbers 1&2 Makoto Nagatomo, Dr. Gay Canough, Dr. Andrew Hall Cutler, Guram Beducadze, Benjamin Dessus, T Fujiwara, Alexander Iacobashvili , Kiyohiko Itoh, N Kaya, S Kinai, J Kochiyama, Geoffrey Landis, Klaus Lotzerich, H Matsumoto, Elgudja Medzmariashvili, Yasutaka Owaga, Francois Pharabod, Keith Rogers, Kitt Carlton-Wippern
	Volume 12, Numbers 3&4 Y Abe, Steven Aftergood, LS Belyaev, V Badescu, Lidong Chen, MJ Clifton, C Dinu, G Gave, Judson Hewitt, DN Kagan, M Kamimoto, K Kanari, A Khalidi, Katsuto Kisara, AS Koroteev, B LaFage, Y Mochida, M Nakagawa, Masayuki Niino, O Nomura, F Ohtomo, John Pike, YU N Rudenko, S Sekita, Y Takahashi, K Tanaka, P Taxil
NEW!	Volume 13, Numbers 1&2 Dr. Peter Glaser, J Blumenberg, Philip Harris, Judson Hewitt, II Kurkin, Kurt Lund, Declan O’Donnell, Victor Orlov, HO Ruppe, VV Rybakov, AP Smakhtin, Alexander Vshivtsev, S Weingartner
NEW!	Volume 13, Numbers 3&4 Including a special section: Solar Energy Systems for Industrialization from the SUNSAT Energy Council by Dr. Peter Glaser and Raymond Leonard JH Bloomer, Gay Canough, Bryan Erb, VA Gabrinets, AI Kondratjev, Geoffrey Landis, I Markov, BE Petrov, Seth Potter, VF Prisnyakov, IN Statsenko