The new decade of the 90’s brought some changes to the menu of the SUNSAT Energy Council’s Space Power journal. Particle physicist Dr. Gay Canough was brought into the editors list and with Space Power’s merger with the Journal of Lunar Exploration and Development, there was a call out for technical materials beyond the focus of power beaming and off-planet photovoltaics. We suggest a look at Dr. Andrew Cutler’s editorial in Volume 9, issue 1 for all of the details.

This consideration of adding in “biospherics and closed environments” and the “hope to publish some material on radiation biology pertinent to long-term space activities as well” did not mean that there was a lack of writing on Space-Based Solar Power developments. Year 9 had a LOT of very technical SPS-related papers.

Now, if the higher tech isn’t your personal taste right now, you will find articles that don’t require using your calc app – may we suggest “Nonterrestrial Materials for Space Solar Power Projects” by Gregg Maryniak?

HOWEVER, we have to take a chance of sounding like your mother by saying ‘eat your vegetables, you may like them.’ Do try some dips into articles that seem completely out of your professional or interest zone, you might find them more edible than you’d thought. There are a lot of these in Volume 9 and some folks might find that along the way they have become somewhat easier to digest.

Ok, just one more food tie-in: Take, Eat. The new issues of Space Power have been doordashed to the list at the bottom of this Space Power page on SSI.org.