November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... ambitious business concepts were presented in response to the presented challenges including powering Earth-orbiting satellites through beamed energy from in-situ manufactured solar panels on the surface of the Moon and the creation of an Earth...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... for the small movements of Twinkle during science observations, a steerable ‘tip-tilt’ mirror will focus a steady beam of incoming light into the science instrument package. There, the light will be filtered to remove unwanted wavelengths...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...important altitude raised significant concerns. Computer graphic depicting a future solar power system in orbit around Earth, beaming energy to receiving antennas on the ground. As well as technology hurdles, such systems will also need to be subject...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... experiments of the last five decades have tried to tune in radio signals that are either deliberately or inadvertently beamed our way. This search, like the public’s interest in aliens, grew out of technical developments during the...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... mightily to renewed economic growth and reversing global warming; all while making a fortune selling solar energy beamed from space to Earth below. However, we have lacked the vision and the will to invest in such efforts...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... and just 2.5 kW-hr/m2 in December. The Solar Power Satellite-Alpha concept. Solar energy is collected, converted to microwaves and beamed to Earth. One concept for a two giga-watt SSP satellite - called Solar Power Satellite (SPS) Alpha...
