Cover |
1 |
Title Page |
3 |
Acknowledgment |
5 |
Introduction |
6 |
Solar Power Satellite Acronyms |
8 |
Picture Identification |
11 |
Table of Contents |
13 |
General Sessions |
27 |
An Historic Perspective On The Solar Powere Satellite Concept |
27 |
SPS And The Office of Technology Assessement |
34 |
Opening Remarks (DOE) |
35 |
Opening Remarks (NASA) |
36 |
National Science Foundation Involvement in SPS |
37 |
National Academy of Science Involvements in SPS |
38 |
Satellite Power System Concept Development and Evaluation Program: The Assessment Process |
41 |
Overview Sessions |
47 |
Overview of Systems Definition Activities for Satellite Solar Power |
47 |
Environmental Assessment Overview |
62 |
Societal Assessment Overview |
80 |
A Comparative Assessment of the Reference Satellite Power System With Selected Current, Near-Term and Advance Energy Technologies |
92 |
An Overview On European Activities |
104 |
SPS Issues: The Need to Look Ahead |
114 |
Systems Definition |
117 |
SPS Overview: Requirements, Alternatives and Reference Systwm |
117 |
Emerging SPS Concepts |
121 |
Integration of SPS WIth Utility System Networks |
125 |
SPS Cost Methodology and Sensitivities |
129 |
SPS Technical Issues |
133 |
Critical Technology Areas Of An SPS Development And The Applicibility of European Technology |
135 |
Environmental Assessment |
139 |
Overview of Atmospheric Effects |
139 |
Ionospheric Disturbance Overview |
142 |
Electromagnetic Compatibility Overview |
146 |
Nonmicrowave Health and Ecological Effects |
148 |
SPS Microwave Health and Ecological Effects - Program Area Overview |
150 |
Societal Assessment |
151 |
An Evaluation of the Land and Material Requirements For The Satellite Power System |
151 |
Societal Assessment - Institutional Issues |
155 |
Societal Assessment - International Issues |
159 |
Public Concerns |
161 |
Comparative Assessment |
164 |
A Methodology For The Comparative Assessment Of The SPS And Alternative Technologies |
164 |
Reference System Characterization And Cost Overview |
168 |
SPS And Alternatie Technologies COst And Performance Evaluations |
172 |
Comparative Health And Safety Assessment Of The SPS And Alternative Electrical Generation Systems |
176 |
Environmental Welfare Comparison |
180 |
Resources / Macroeconomic / Institutional Comparative Assessment |
184 |
Summary: SPS Program Review Friday, 25 April 1980 |
188 |
Subsessions |
189 |
Systems Definition |
190 |
Structural Dynamics and Control Subsession |
190 |
SPS Structures and Control: A Perspective |
190 |
SPS Attitude Control And Stationkeeping - Requirements And Tradeoffs |
194 |
Satellite Power Systems Structures - A 1980 Technology Status Review |
198 |
Dynamics and Control of the Satellite POwer System |
202 |
A Modern Control Approach To The Design Of The Satellite Control System |
206 |
Active Control of Deflections In Space Structures |
210 |
The Design of Low-Cost Structures FOr Extensive Ground Arrays |
211 |
SPS Structural Dynamics And Control Workshop: FIndings and REcommendations |
215 |
Transportation Subsession |
219 |
SPS Program Review Transportation Perspective |
219 |
Minimum Cost Critreia For SPS Transportation To GEO |
222 |
Earth-To-Orbit Transportation For Solar Power Satellites |
226 |
Orbit-To-Orbit Transportation |
230 |
Offshore Space Center (Offshore Launch Site) |
234 |
The Applicability Of MPD Thrusters To Satellite Power Systems |
236 |
Satellite Power Systems (SPS) Space Transportation Workshop Summary |
240 |
Open Forum Subsession |
242 |
Technology Alternatives For The SPS |
242 |
Prototype Solar Power Satellite Options |
245 |
Recent Work On Use Of Lunar Materials For SPS Construction |
249 |
A Contribution To The Availability Of Lunar Resources For Powersat Construction |
253 |
Passive Solar Reflector Satellite Revisited |
257 |
Comparison Of Low Earth Orbit And Geosynchronous Earth Orbit |
260 |
The Infrared Alternative |
263 |
Satellite Power System Total Proof-Of-Concept Program |
266 |
Power Conversion Subsession |
269 |
Power Conversion Perspective |
269 |
Gallium Arsenide Power Conversion Concept |
272 |
SPS Silicon Reference System |
276 |
Proton Damage Annealing Kinetics In Silicon Solar Cells |
280 |
A Survey of the Market, Supply and Availability Of Gallium |
284 |
Evaluation Of Solar Cell Materials For A Solar Power Satellite |
289 |
Solar Driven Lasers For Power Satellite Applications |
293 |
Conclusions Of The Huntsville SPS Power Conversion Workshop |
297 |
Power Transmission I Subsession |
299 |
Power Transmission And Reception - An Overview And Perspective |
299 |
Microwave System Preformance Summary |
303 |
Satellite Power System Concept Development And Evaluation Program Critical Supporting Invstigations "Summary" |
307 |
Phase Control Sysem Concepts And Simulations |
311 |
An Interferometer-Based Phase Control System |
315 |
A Power Satellite Sonic Simulator |
319 |
Smaller SPS System Sizing Tradeoffs |
323 |
Construction and Operations Subsession |
327 |
SPS Construction Perspective / Summary |
327 |
Integrated Space Operations Overview |
329 |
Specific Construction Tasks |
333 |
Specific SPS Construction Studies: Construction Tasks-Construction Base |
336 |
Construction Of The SPS Primary Structure By Another Method |
342 |
Specific SPS Construction Studies: Operations and Maintenance |
345 |
SPS Rectenna Array |
349 |
Automated Construction Of Lightweight, Simple, Field-Erected Structures |
350 |
Power Transmission II Subsession |
354 |
Rectenna System Design |
354 |
A Theoretical Study Of Microwave Beam Absorption By A Rectenna |
358 |
Power Amplifiers (Tube) |
362 |
Solid-State Configurations |
366 |
Solid-State Technology |
370 |
Microwave Power Transmission Workshop Summary |
371 |
Offshore Rectenna Feasibility |
374 |
High-Power Microwave Optics For Flexible Power Transmission Systems |
378 |
SPS Power Transmission - Are Multiple Beams A Better Option For Europe? |
382 |
Power Distribution and Management Subsession |
385 |
Electric Power Processing, Distribution, Management and Energy Storage |
385 |
High Voltage Systems (Tube-Type Microwave / Low Voltage System (Solid-State Microwave) Power DIstribution |
390 |
Satellite Power System Operations |
394 |
High Voltage Space Plasma Interactions |
398 |
SPS Power Management Workshop Summary |
402 |
Environmental Assessment |
404 |
Microwave Health and Ecological Effects Subsession |
19 |
Microwave Health And Ecological Effects Overview |
403 |
Study Of Biological And Ecological Effects Of SPS Microwave Power |
404 |
SPS Microwave Effects On Airborne Biota Status Report |
408 |
A Review Of Effcts Of SPS-Related Microwaves On Reporoduction and Teratology |
412 |
Biological Effects Of Chronic Pre- And Post-Natal Exposure of Squirrel Monkeys To SPS Frequency Microwaves |
417 |
Preliminary Planning For Future SPS Microwave Health And Ecology Research And Assssment |
421 |
Ionospheric Disturbance Subsession |
425 |
Simulated D- And E-Region Effects Of The SPS Power Beam |
425 |
Microwave Heating Of The Lower Ionosphere |
428 |
Ionosphere / Microwave Beam Interactions: Arecebo Experimental Results |
432 |
SPS Heating In The Lower Ionosphere, An Experimental View |
433 |
Laboratory And Proposed Ionospheric Experiments On SPS Microwave Instability |
435 |
Electromagnetic Compatibility Subsession |
439 |
Summary Of The Electromagnetic Compatibility Evaluation Of The Proposed Satellite Power System |
439 |
The Effects of A Satellite Power System On Ground-Based Astronomy |
444 |
The EMC Of Satellite Power Systems And DoD C-E Systems |
449 |
Encounters Between SPS Power System Beams And Satellites In Lower Orbits |
453 |
The EMC Impact Of SPS Operations On Low Earth Orbit Satellites |
456 |
The SPS Intreference Problem - Electronic System Effects And Mitigation Techniques |
460 |
Atmospheric Effects I Subsession |
464 |
Atmospheric Effects Overview |
464 |
Rectenna-Related Atmospheric Effects |
465 |
Ground Cloud Air Quality Effects |
469 |
Ground-Cloud-Related Weather Modification Effects |
471 |
Overview of HLLV Effluents In Stratosphere And Above |
475 |
Mesospheric Cloud Formations |
477 |
D- And E-Region Effects |
479 |
Environmental Effects Of SPS: The Middle Atmosphere |
483 |
Non-Microwave Health and Ecological Effects Subsession |
485 |
Sunlight Reflections From A Solar Power Satellite Or Solars Mirrors Should NOt Harm The Eyes |
485 |
Characterization Of Reflected Light From The Space Power System |
489 |
Prototype Environmental Assssment Of The Impacts Of Siting And Construction Of An SPS Ground Receiving Station |
494 |
Effects Of The Space Environment On The Health And Safety Of Space Workers |
498 |
Hazards To Space Workers From Ionizing Radiation In The SPS Environment |
500 |
Late Biological Effects Of Heavy Charged Particles: Cataracts, Vascular Injury And Life Shortening in Mice |
502 |
Atmospheric Effects II Subsession |
505 |
Ionospheric Observations: Archived Data And The HEAO-C Launch |
505 |
The Lagopedo Experiments |
508 |
Ice Formation During Lagepedo Uno |
510 |
Theoretical Investigations Of Ionospheric Modifications Produced By Rocket Exhaust |
512 |
Effects Of Rocket Exhaust Products In The Thremosphere And Ionosphere |
514 |
Plasmaspheric And Magentospheric Effects Of POTV And COTV Effluents |
518 |
Disposition Of SPS Electric Thruster Exhaust |
521 |
Effects Of Argon Ion Injections In The Plasmashpree |
526 |
Societal Assessment |
530 |
International Considerations Subsession |
530 |
On The Military Implications Of Satellite Power Systems |
530 |
Some Aspects Of SPS Acceptability In Europe |
532 |
Strategies For Marshalling International Support For Solar Power Systems |
535 |
Alternative Intrenational Political Reactions To SPS |
536 |
Internationalization Of The SPS: US Policy Issues, Options And Strategies |
538 |
Resources Subsession |
541 |
Satellite Power System Rectenna Siting Study |
541 |
Relationship Of Eligible Areas To Projected Electrical Demand |
545 |
Prototype Societal Assssment Of The Impacts Of Siting And Construction Of An SPS Ground Receiving Station |
549 |
Potential For Reception Of SPS Microwave Enregy At Offshore Rectennas In Western Europe |
553 |
Preliminary SPS Matereials Assessment |
555 |
Public Concerns I Subsession |
558 |
Social Acceptability Of Satellite Power Systems: A Preliminary Exploration |
558 |
Energy Implications Of An Aging Population |
560 |
Concerns Of The Citizens' Enrgy Project About The SPS |
564 |
Concerns Of The L-5 Society About SPS |
566 |
Concerns of FAAST About The SPS |
568 |
A Societal Assessment Of Student Participation In The Evaluation Of The Satellite Power System Concept |
572 |
Institutional Issues Subsession |
576 |
A Study Of Federal Microwave Standards |
576 |
Satellite Power System: Initial Insurance Evaluation |
579 |
Problems And Prospects For An SPS Role In New York State's Energy Future: A Major Case Study Of COncept Viability |
580 |
Satellite Power Systems: The Need For A Detailed Assessment To Develop Feasible management Schems |
582 |
Some Judicial And Regulatory Factors |
586 |
Public Concerns II Subsession |
588 |
A Different Race |
588 |
Economic And Environmental Impacts Of Solar Satellite Power Systems |
592 |
Sources And Nature Of Resistance To Satellite Power System Development |
594 |
Sun Bust, Or Why SPS WIll Never Get Off The Ground |
596 |
Press Perceptions of SPS |
598 |
Institutional Issues II Subsession |
599 |
The Industrial Infrastructure For The Solar Power Satellite |
599 |
Utility System Impacts Of The Satellite Power System |
603 |
Institutional Considerations Of SPS / Utility Integration |
605 |
An Assessment Of SPS Utility Integration Issues Arising From The Distribution Of Eligible Rectenna Sites And Electricity Demand Centers |
607 |
Electric Utility Requirements Affecting Solar Power Satellite Dvelopment ANd Deplyment |
611 |
Comparative Assessment |
613 |
Contributed Papers Subsession |
613 |
The Power Satellite: Toward Which Energy Crisis? |
613 |
Economic Potential Of SPS |
617 |
SPS Salvage And Disposal Alternatives |
621 |
The Satellite Power Station And Non-Cost Uncretainty Aspects Of Risk |
623 |
SPS: Their Findings And Macroeconomic Effects |
626 |
Comparative Environmental and Societal Evaluations Subsession |
630 |
Resource Comparisons (Land, Water and Materials) |
630 |
Macroeconomic / Socioeconomic Comparisons Of SPS And Altrenative Enregy Technologies |
633 |
Environmental Welfare Effects Evaluation |
635 |
Climate And Energy: A Comparative Assessment Of SPS And ALternative Energy Technologies |
636 |
Research Of The Use Of Solar Energy In The Development Of Engineering Thermophysics, China University Of Science And Technology |
637 |
Cost and Performance I: Characterization and Audit Subsession |
641 |
SATELLITE POWER SYSTEM COST REVIEW |
641 |
CRITICAL REVIEW OF SATELLITE POWER SYSTEMS (SPS) SPACE TRANSPORTATION COST ESTIMATES |
645 |
UTILITIES VIEW OF SPS |
648 |
ALTERNATIVE ADVANCED POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY CHARACTERIZATIONS |
650 |
Cost and Performance II:
Cost and Performance Evaluations Subsession |
654 |
Altrenative Future Enregy Price / Demand Scenarios |
654 |
Uncertainty In Enregy Cost Comparisons |
658 |
Authors Index |
663 |
Glossary |
681 |
Attendees List |
691 |