SPACE POWER Published under the auspices of the Council for Economic and Social Studies on behalf of the SUNSAT Energy Council. Editors: Dr. Gay E. Canough, ETM Solar Works and Dr. Andrew Hall Cutler, NASA Space Engineering Center, The University of Arizona Associate Editors: Fred KoomanofT, Dept, of Energy, USA Richard Boudreault, Consultant, Montreal, Canada Lars Broman, SERC, Sweden William C. Brown, Massachusetts, USA Lucien Deschamps, Paris, France Ben Finney, U of Hawaii, USA Peter Glaser, Aurther D. Little, Inc. USA Dieter Kassing, ESTEC, The Netherlands Mikhail Ya. Marov, U of North Carolina, USA Gregg Maryniak, International Space Power Program, USA Makoto Nagatomo, ISAS, Japan Mark Nelson, Institute of Ecotechnics, USA John R. Page, U of New South Wales, Australia Tanya Sienko, NASDA, Tsukuba, Japan Space Power is a quarterly, international journal for the presentation, discussion and analysis of advanced concepts, initial treatments and ground-breaking basic research on the technical, economic and societal aspects of: large-scale space-based solar power, space resources utilization, space manufacturing, space colonization, and other areas related to the development and use of space for the benefit of humanity. Recent subject coverage: • history' and status of national space power programs • technologies for large-scale space power e.g. solar power satellites • systems aspects of large-scale power, e.g. SPS and central space power utilities • potential extraterrestrial resources for use in space-based manufacturing • lunar and planetary science for understanding space resource location and availability • plasma and other space environment interactions with large space structures • medical, psychological, sociological and cultural aspects of human presence in space • forms of advanced space propulsion and power technologies and systems. Space Power is published four times per year. These four issues constitute one volume. An annual index and titlepage is bound in the December issue. 1993 is volume 12 ISSN = 0883-6272 Editorial Correspondence: Dr. Gay E. Canough, Space Power c/o ETM Solar Works, Inc., PO Box 67, Endicott, NY 13761, phone/fax = (607) 785-6499 e-mail (Internet): CANOUGH@BINGVAXA.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU radio call sign: KB2OXA. Business Correspondence: including orders, subscriptions, advertisements and back issues should be addressed to the publisher: Council for Social and Economic Studies Inc.. 1133 13th St. N.W., Suite C-2, Washington D.C. 20005, U.S.A. Tel: (202) 371-2700; FAX (202) 371-1525. Subscriptions: libraries S288/year, individuals $144/yr: additional $25/yr for foreign airmail. Cover: Artist’s conception of a Solar Power Satellite in space with the inset showing how the rectennae or Earthbased receiving station would appear. The painting was done by Marc Martel of Dayton, Ohio, with scientific input from Dr. Seth Potter of New York City. The artwork is the property of Space Studies Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. Copyright Space Studies Institute. 1993.
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