Space-to-Space Power Beaming - An Evolving Commercial Mission to Unbundle Space Power Systems to Foster Space Applications

摘要

One of many paths forward for hastening the development of viable applications of space solar power technology is through focused incremental technology development, demonstration, and deployment efforts. These efforts can serve to mitigate cost, schedule, and technical risk associated with the short, mid, and long term applications of the technology. The proposed mission will provide both a capability of demonstrable value to some number of customers (e.g., commercial, NASA, international partners, and non-profit entities) co-orbiting with the International Space Station (ISS) and a testbed environment for evolving the technology for additional applications.