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Title: [NSS]SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array
Post by: Feed Bot on October 13, 2011, 07:04:45 AM

SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has issued a grant to John Mankins of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions for a study of space solar power. SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) is a novel, bio-mimetic approach to the challenge of space solar power. If successful, this project will make possible the [...]

Source: SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array (http://blog.nss.org/?p=3108)