Space Solar Limited, founded in 2022 and headquartered in the UK, is a company focused on developing space-based solar power (SBSP) technology. As a provider, they aim to create clean, dependable, and affordable energy by collecting solar energy in space and wirelessly transmitting it to Earth. Space Solar collaborates with organizations like the UK Government through the Space Energy Initiative (SEI) and is working towards having its first plant operational by 2030.
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.
The China Academy of Space Technology plans a 2028 space-based demonstration of space solar power.
Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
SSPIDR program director Tara Theret stated that space solar power beaming could provide energy anywhere on Earth at any time.
Northrop Grumman's Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working towards transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
Vigoride 5 will remain in orbit for several months operating a hosted payload provided by Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project.
Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project payload on Vigoride 5 features three experiments to test solar cell performance, deployment mechanisms, and beam focusing and steering technologies for space-based microwave power transmission concepts.
A paper by Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project projects Vigoride 5 would spend seven months in orbit, with six months dedicated to the hosted payload mission.
Space Solar Limited, a startup backed by SEI, is seeking to raise around $300,000,000 for the first phase of its roadmap toward an operational SBSP system in 12 years.
CAST previously set a goal of launching a megawatt-level space solar power satellite by 2030, and the 2028 plan advances a first in-orbit satellite by two years relative to that goal.
China plans to demonstrate a 100-kilowatt space solar power station in low Earth orbit by 2025 and to operate a megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2030, according to testimony by analyst Namrata Goswami to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in April 2019.
An experiment launched 2020-05-17 onboard the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 is based on over a decade of work focused on a modular space solar satellite capable of beaming energy to Earth.