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:...

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...

"“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.”"...

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...

"for the first time since the 1970s, the idea of space-based solar power has been addressed legislatively by the US Congress."   ""..and if the United States doesn't do it, we know our friends and global competitors will.""   - - - a.k.a: “If we continue to...

Money makes the world go 'round. Money people read the Wall Street Journal.  Keep it up. Read the Article here (Paywall, but...): https://www.wsj.com/articles/beaming-solar-energy-from-space-gets-a-step-closer-fc903658 To see on...

""Through the experiments we have run so far, we received confirmation that MAPLE can transmit power successfully to receivers in space," Hajimiri says. "We have also been able to program the array to direct its energy toward...

SPS. "If we can demonstrate our technology ahead of the rest of the world, it will also be a bargaining tool for space development with other countries" ...