A friend who is working on SPS in the UK (I was about to say, “in Europe,” but had to correct myself 😊) pointed out a couple of system study reports coming out of ESA contracts recently:
One just published from Thales: https://nebula.esa.int/content/pre-phase-system-study-commercial-scale-space-based-solar-power-sbsp-system-terrestrial-0
And this one about using lunar materials to build SPSs, from earlier this year: https://nebula.esa.int/content/ge%E2%8A%95-lunar-power-station
- Kieran
Actually there was another recently published system study in addition to the Thales Alenia study.
This one was by Arthur D. Little which investigated a Direct
Sun Reflecting solution instead of a traditional SBSP power
generating approach.
https://nebula.esa.int/content/pre-phase-system-study-commercial-scale-space-based-solar-power-sbsp-system-terrestrial
ESA also presented the results of two super-heavy reusable
launcher concepts 'PROTEIN' that were recently completed by
ArianeGroup and Rocket Factory Augsburg.
Apparently, these study results have not yet been added to the ESA
Nebula Public Library.
My company Astrostrom was responsible for the study using lunar materials to build SPSs.
Arthur
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