Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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Space-based solar ☀️ power (#SBSP) - beaming clean #energy to #Earth from orbital #solar farms.
The #UK 🇬🇧, #US 🇺🇸 and #Chinese 🇨🇳 governments are funding research, #ESA has approved a 3-year study named #Solaris.
One reason that #SPSB is back on the agenda is the plummeting #cost per kilogram of launching #payloads into #space.
Thanks to #reusable #rockets, this figure has fallen nearly 20-fold in two decades, while solar panels have become #lighter. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-12-20/space-based-solar-power-europe-funding-research/101733558
#Microwave power transmission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Microwave_power_transmission
Picture : Tim Peake & Tim Kopra replace a failed voltage regulator at the #ISS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-46_EVA-1_(c)_Timothy_Peake.jpg
#sbsp #energy #earth #solar #uk #us #chinese #Esa #solaris #spsb #cost #payloads #space #reusable #rockets #lighter #Microwave #iss #spaceenergy #spacesolar