Beamed Space Based Solar Power Demonstration Progress
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#652XP)
The Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP) at Caltech is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed-including to places that currently have no access to reliable power. Over a period of two years, they have built and demonstrated two ...