Mobile solar power station and coupled solar power stations for space based power generation and transmission

摘要

A solar sail spacecraft is designed to steer and move in space by using solar radiation pressure as a driving force, therefore allowing fuelless propulsion, station keeping and attitude control.;A solar power satellite utilizes thrusters only to stay in an rather stationary orbit. Its purpose is, to collect energy and transfer it to a given location, usually to Earth.;The intention of the present invention is to create a hybrid of a solar sail spacecraft and a power satellite for space based power generation and transmission, which is mobile and provides both, fuelless solar sailing and electric thrusters as means of propulsion.;The mobile Solar Sail Power Station serves as solar energy collector and can be connected by docking with other power stations and with a transmitter unit for energy transmission, whereby the transmitter features its own fuelless pointing and attitude control devices.