Spaceflight 🚀📆 2023 This #SBSP study by #Astrostrom for #ESA proposes a 29,339 m2 #solar ☀️ collector at the #Lagrange point, #SolarPanels from #Lunar 🌙 materials, transported by a #SpaceElevator 🚠 from the #Moon https://nebula.esa.int/sites/default/files/neb_study/2753/C4000136309ESR.pdf
"If all goes to plan, we’ll have our first commercial product by 📆 2029. Offering 30 MW of power ☀️🔋, it could be launched by a single #Starship rocket, and scale to gigawatt systems from there" https://physicsworld.com/a/space-based-solar-power-we-have-nothing-to-lose-and-everything-to-gain
56 #space-based #SolarPower companies : https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-solar-power
LordPhantom (Mathew)@spaceflight Sounds like the author is keen for government funding. If it works so great why isn't he doing it? It's because he needs a rocket that doesn't yet exist and a launch price that is orders of magnitude cheaper than currently available.
