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Power Beaming from the Creator
There are many videos showing experiments of Wireless Power Beaming available on YouTube, most all mention either the 1964 Raytheon Microwave Helicopter experiments or the 1975 JPL Goldstone tests - and the official NASA Goldstone PR video alone has over 40 thousand...
A Free PDF from SSI
This is the 90th Birthday week of Space Studies Institute's founder Gerard K. O'Neill and over on the Space Studies Institute Facebook Page we've been posting some snippets from Gerry's Opening Remarks at the 10th SSI-Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing. It...
Energy. And Power.
Heinlein correctly said at the end of Have Spacesuit Will Travel that there is no "Luck": "Why were you on that frequency? Because you were wearing a space suit. Why were you wearing it? Because you were determined to space. When a space ship called, you answered. If...
SSI At Cranfield University 2075 Think Tank
On January 25th Cranfield University in Cranfield, Branford, England presented the inaugural 'Manufacturing 2075 Think Tank’. It was a wonderful meeting of presentations and workgroups and The Space Studies Institute was honored to be invited to be among the first...
Solar Power Satellites. SSI at ISU
In 1987 Space Studies Institute Senior Associates Peter Diamandis, Todd Hawley and Bob Richards founded The International Space University. The ISU was envisioned to start as a floating yearly program bringing together the brightest and most Space-passionate students...
Space Solar Power
Space solar power appears to offer the cleanest option for generating the large quantities of electricity needed by a progressive civilization. Among other options for power generation, none has such benign environmental impact...