NASA: Space Solar Power: Inflatable Structures and Materials
Part 8: SSP Technologies: Structures, Materials, and Controls Introduction – John Mankins Inflatable Structures and Materials Inflatable Trusses Isogrid Boom Other Inflatable Structures Hexapod YouTube Link (11:32): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3nRfGUwHs4 Transcript of video: Introduction – [...]
Space Option Star in ELEO
Developing solar power satellites (SPS) as a major energy source for Earth will involve multiple orbital demonstrators. Satellites in low Earth orbits (LEO) will have far lower costs than demonstrators in geostationary orbit (GEO) or [...]
Choosing a Space Age or a Stone Age
This commentary by Arthur R. Woods and Marco C. Bernasconi is a slightly updated version which first appeared in Space News – Oct. 2- 8, 1995 There is no need to list the many challenges [...]
Flywheel Effects of the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station
"To build a bridge is much more than connecting points A and B. It's laying the foundations of a whole new economy" The development and growth of the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) system [...]
The Space Energy Option
As the 21st century unfolds, humanity finds that it needs more room and more resources to sustain its numbers and to maintain its thirst for further development and knowledge. The finite planetary resources that contributed [...]
The Climate Emergency
Due to the many assessments and reports issued since 1990 by the United Nation’s IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and the subsequent international commitment to address the climate issue achieved in the [...]
The Energy Dilemma
Among all of nature’s diverse systems, energy is the principal driver of the increasing complexity of galaxies, stars, planets and life-forms in the expanding universe. Energy flows engendered largely by the expanding cosmos seem to [...]
The Space Option: An Alternative to War
Here on Earth, human civilization has reached such a point in its development where it has evolved the means to leave its home planet and to begin operating in the environment beyond the atmosphere. Optimistically, [...]
The Sun-Earth-Moon System of Greater Earth
"If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a Moon." Krafft A. Ehricke, 1984 [1] The Sun-Earth-Moon System of Greater Earth is an interdependent dynamic system that contributed [...]