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 online here: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/project-solaris-esa-solar-power-space/
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With that as backstory, take a peek at the real-world progress. This next site went down this morning just as we were going to share it with you… but it seems back up now (ymmv). Scroll down halfway on this link to read of the announced UK funding:
And if you prefer a more well-known site: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/13/uk-innovators-get-43m-to-develop-space-based-solar-power
a.k.a:
“If we continue to ignore satellite power as a goal of our space program, satellite power is not going to be forgotten. It will simply be picked up and exploited by one or more other nations that see that potential six trillion dollar a year market. The nations that do will become the leading nations of the twenty first century.”-Gerard K. O’NeillFounder, First President of the Space Studies Institute
read that O’Neill, in full context, here.
learn more about SPS: here on SSI.org
