Small Satellite Wireless Power Transmission Experiment Workshop You are invited to attend a workshop to look at the possibility of building a small satellite for use in a wireless power transmission (WPT) test. This workshop will be held on September 24 and 25, 1994 at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy NY, in conjunction with the third annual Northeast Space Development Conference. WPT is one of the key techniques to be developed for use with solar power stations in space. The general idea is to build a satellite which can receive power from Arecibo as the satellite passes over. The satellite would be in low orbit. Although it can only receive for a short time, with enough passes, interesting data could be collected. Some of the studies that could be done are • the interaction of microwaves with the atmosphere • power reception through the atmosphere • efficiency of the receiver • deployment of a flexible rectenna • space plasma interaction measurements In addition to studies, building the satellite could be done as a student project, giving students a unique opportunity. The satellite would carry a transmitter that would broadcast information about the experiments on the amateur radio bands. It could even have a short message about what wireless power transmission and space solar power is all about. Anyone on Earth could tune in and listen. The public relations aspect is very important, since most people have never heard of WPT. Such a small satellite could be launched on the Ariane ASAP ring (the payload ballast ring). Many amateur radio satellites have been launched this way, some for free, some for low cost. There are other possibilities for launch also. For example, the Japanese H-II rocket is now on-line and Japanese energy experts and scientists are quite interested in demo projects about wireless power transmission and space solar power. If you are interested in attending and/or more information, contact: Mailing address: ETM Solar Works, Inc. PO Box 67 Endicott, NY 13761 Dr. Gay E. Canough, Editor of Space Power ETM and Binghamton University, department of physics e-mail(Intemet): C ANOUGH@BINGVAXA. CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU phone/fax= 607 785 6499 radio call sign: KB20XA
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