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SPS. This week around the world (careful that last link)
In case your phone missed it. There was a minor flurry of Solar Power Satellite / Space Based Solar Power news near the end of October and leading into November, likely prompted by this Wall Street Journal piece:...
SPS. No, the Opposite
"“Electricity is plentiful and cheap here on the ground but scarce and expensive in space; we remedy that imbalance,” says Robert Millman, CEO of Electric Sky. " Read that quote again. And look to here:...
SPS. Five New Government Reports and a Second Dad
The Space Studies Institute just added a new batch of U.S. government reports to the SSI SPS Research Library Online Collection: Satellite Power System Engineering And Economic Analysis Summary from the DOE Climate And Energy: Comparative Assessment of the SPS and...
SPS in the New York Times. And a special free pre-release of a classic
The New York Times caught up with the Solar Power Satellites / Space-Based Solar Power story a few days ago. We apologize for the wait but as you will see in the article there are a number of excellent links to external sources from our old friends including a Way...
SPS. Help for your European Space Agency Solar Power Satellite Submission. Don’t wait!
The European Space Agency SPS Call For Proposals deadline is coming up fast. Want background on the key topics that they hope to start studying? There's an SSI for that. Right Here:...
SPS. The Europeans have a great concept
Doesn't take much investigation for someone to hit the fact that that guy O'Neill and the folks who made SSI with him were constantly having to explain over and over and over that you don't have to launch - and should try to...
SPS. On Quartz Space Business
"“One of the challenges we are facing right now is incrementalism,” Hajimiri says. “There’s a lot of incremental [work] that’s important and essential, [but] it should not come at the cost of potentially large risk, but large reward, projects.”"...
SPS. The Public Brit View
Post images from BBC Science Focus (March 2023 but, except for the JBIS, tech mags take the slowest boat possible across the pond. We just got it in the mail today and it is still in many B&N racks). You can also read the...