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  • Solar-Based Power Satellites

 

Space-based solar power can be developed into a source of clean and sustainable energy around the World, on the Moon, or anywhere else humans are likely to go. Solar power already energizes our satellites and space stations in orbit around Earth. The trick is to harvest solar energy on orbit, convert it into a form of power that can be broadcast safely to Earth, and to do so economically.

 

 

  • The Solar Power Satellite (SPS)

 

The Solar Power Satellite (SPS) concept would place solar power plants in orbit above Earth, where they would convert sunlight to electricity and beam the power to ground-based receiving stations. The ground-based stations would be connected to today's regular electrical power lines that run to our homes, offices and factories here on Earth. 

 

 

  • Why put Solar Power Plants in Space? 

 

Without the attenuation that results from passing through the atmosphere, sunlight in Earth orbit is about 25% more intense than on the ground. Moreover, in space the sun shines virtually 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

Unlike solar power on the ground, solar power satellites would not be vulnerable to cloudy days or the changes in the seasons. As a result, extra generating capacity and energy storage aren't needed to assure continuous solar energy to meet the needs of society. All told, many of the problems that have limited the use of ground based solar power concepts do not affect space solar power.

 

Solar power satellites would be placed in so-called "geostationary" or "Earth synchronous" orbit, a 24-hour orbit which is thus synchronized with Earth's rotation, so that satellites placed there remain stationary in the sky when viewed from a point on the Earth. (Likewise, today's communications satellites are put into geostationary orbit, and each TV satellite dish on the ground is pointed towards one satellite "stationary" in orbit.) The receiver is called a "rectifying antenna" (or “rectenna”; pronounced "rektenna").

 

 

  • Space Canada Mission Statement

 

SPACE Canada is dedicated to promoting, supporting and encouraging international dialogue on space-based solar power through research, education and commercialization. Read more at  http://www.spacecanada.org/

 

ASTRONAUTIC SOLAR CLIENTS

European Space Agency (ESA) 

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ASTRONAUTIC GOALS AROUND THE WORLD 

ABU DHABI

 

Oil-rich United Arab Emirates recently announced it will create a space agency with the aim of sending the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021.

 
“The UAE has entered the space race with a project to send an unmanned probe to Mars by 2021 in the Arab world’s first mission to another planet,” said an Emirati government statement.
It added that a UAE Space Agency is to be created to drive the project.
 
“We chose the epic challenge of reaching Mars because epic challenges inspire us and motivate us,” said the UAE vice president and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
The statement said UAE investments in space technologies have already topped 20 billion dirhams ($5.44 billion).

 

Russia plans to colonize moon by 2030

 

Nearly a half-century after America won the Space Race, Russia apparently wants to take another crack at landing on the moon.

 

A report in the Russian-language newspaper Izvestia Thursday said the nation is planning to put a manned colony on the moon as soon as 2030, and is racing to dispatch the first robotic rovers to explore the lunar surface two years from now,according to The Moscow Times.

 

By 2028, Russia would be ready to send manned missions to orbit the moon, and in the program's final stage, humans would be sent to the lunar surface to set up the infrastructure for a colony using local resources.

 

The first stage of the program is expected to cost around 28.5 billion rubles ($815.8 million), though Russia hopes to attract private investors to help bankroll the project.

 

 

At 84 years of age, Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin still has a lot to say. And with a lifetime of experiences behind him – and ahead of him yet as well – he’s hoping those in power in Washington D.C. and at NASA will listen to his plans to colonize the planet Mars during the next four decades.

 

July 20th, 2014 marks 45 years since Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins ventured to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. While Collins stayed in orbit aboard the Columbia module, Armstrong and Aldrin made history by taking the Eagle module down to the surface and creating mankind’s first footprints on another celestial body.

 

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Forever known as ‘the second man to walk on the Moon,’ Aldrin has been the more outspoken of the trio in the decades since. While Armstrong advocated for going back to the Moon, believing that there was much left to learn from the Earth’s nearby satellite, Aldrin has been a strong proponent of extending mankind’s grasp by aiming instead for the Red Planet.

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BUZZ ALDRIN: IT’S TIME TO COLONIZE THE RED PLANET

NASA: ‘Our plan is to colonize Mars’

 

NASA, right now, is really taking a step-wise approach: let’s look at our own solar system and the most likely places where we might find life.

 

That’s why we are so focused on Mars, because we know Mars had liquid water on the surface and we think that is essential to life.

 

What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge long periods of time.

 

[We're] not sure that condition exists anywhere else in our solar system. But certainly when we go out and look for habitable planets around other stars it’s something that we can start thinking about.

Private Mars Colonization Venture Contracts with Lockheed, SSTL for Robotic Precursor Studies

 

WASHINGTON — Mars One, a Dutch nonprofit that wants to send volunteer settlers on one-way trips to Mars beginning in 2025, gave Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) contracts to design a robotic lander and telecommunications orbiter intended for launch to the red planet in 2018. 

The contracts are for designs studies only and, at a combined value of only about $340,000, are a long way from a commitment to purchase space hardware.

 

Lockheed Martin will design the Mars One lander, which will be based on the 350-kilogram Phoenix lander the Denver-based company helped NASA send to the red planet in 2008. U.K.-based SSTL will design the telecom orbiter, according to Mars One’s Dec. 10 press release. Lockheed’s contract is worth $256,000, while SSTL’s contract is worth 60,000 euros, or roughly $82,000, according to Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mars One.

 
 
 
 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

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MORE TO KNOW

 

 

The global market for solar energy is growing within the following countries; United States, The Bahamas, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Australia, China, Iceland, India, Hong Kong, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Norway, Ireland, Greece, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

KEYS TO SUCCESS

 

Bright Solar Systems has identified three keys to success that help the company grow into a mature market leader.

 

• Providing cutting edge, reliable, and simple-to-install

  and maintain solar systems.

 

• Broadening the market of solar systems into a

  mainstream energy source.

 

• Designing and implementing strict financial controls.

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