Fig. 1.2. Possible Human Health Effects from SPS Microwaves of this work will not be within the scope of the FY 1978-80 program plan. However, short-term prospective studies will address several questions that can be answered in this time span, particularly those concerning overt effects on airborne biota. The other type of study, which we call retrospective, will address effects reported in the literature. A major effort must be made to validate the apparently credible, published reports of potential adverse health effects of the 2.45 GHz radiation transmitted from the satellite to the rectenna. In addition, effects reported at certain other frequencies should be investigated to determine whether they also occur at 2.45 GHz. The intent behind the retrospective studies is to evaluate objectively the effects reported at such frequency and power densities as are appropriate to the SPS program. The information developed from this work will be used in the design of the longterm experiments to be conducted after 1980. Only rarely has microwave-effects research been performed that has direct ecological implications and in no study has the impact of microwaves on an entire ecosystem been attempted. Nevertheless, in a cursory review of the
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