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ESA: Lunar Solar Power Satellite

The concept of gathering some of the unlimited sunlight available in space, then transmitting it down to users, was first developed to serve the clean energy needs of planet Earth. But Space-Based Solar Power can also work for the Moon. As part of ESA’s Open Space Innovation Platform Campaign on ‘Clean Energy – New Ideas [...]

By |2023-10-18T10:49:18+02:00July 14th, 2023|Press|0 Comments

Astrostrom at the Luxembourg Space Resources Week 2023

Astrostrom presented initial results of its ESA funded OSIP feasibility study: Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) at the Luxembourg Space Resources Week 2023 on April 19 Arthur Woods, CEO of Astrostrom GmbH, speaking at the 2023 Luxembourg Space Resources Week In the context of ESA’s open call for proposals “Clean Energy [...]

By |2023-06-05T12:21:05+02:00April 23rd, 2023|News|0 Comments

Press Release: Astrostrom helps ESA to Promote SOLARIS Programme

In 2020 Astrostrom GmbH responded to two ESA open calls for new mission ideas. In the first call: “What’s Next? New Space Missions and Ideas” Astrostrom’s proposal for an orbital demonstration of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) was one of several ideas selected from 201 submissions for further evaluation. In response to ESA’s open call: "Clean [...]

By |2023-12-10T16:45:20+01:00October 7th, 2022|News|0 Comments

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 immensely to its present state are being exhausted to unsustainable levels and their uncontrolled use within the biosphere is resulting [...]

By |2024-02-22T20:30:01+01:00May 2nd, 2022|Articles, Solutions|0 Comments

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 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change which, as of February 2020 has now been signed by 189 countries, a Climate [...]

By |2023-12-17T09:46:29+01:00May 1st, 2022|Articles, Solutions|0 Comments

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 be as universal as anything yet found in nature. Indeed, unlocking Earth's vast energy reserves enabled our species to embark [...]

By |2022-12-02T13:33:47+01:00April 30th, 2022|Articles, Solutions|0 Comments

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, this development would enable humanity to utilize this technological capability to harness the infinite resources located off Earth to improve [...]

By |2023-12-24T10:57:28+01:00April 28th, 2022|Articles, Solutions|0 Comments

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 to the emergence and evolution of life on Earth. The region outside Earth’s atmosphere and extending out to just beyond [...]

By |2024-04-22T09:46:07+02:00April 21st, 2022|Articles|0 Comments

Press Release: Astrostrom: Energy Security for Switzerland

Last year, Astrostrom GmbH analyzed Switzerland's energy situation based on the "Energy Perspectives 2050+" strategy and identified an Energy Dilemma that will lead to an annual energy deficit of 114 TWh by 2050 - equivalent to 15 nuclear power plants the size of Gösgen.  As the Sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always [...]

By |2023-06-02T12:05:58+02:00April 10th, 2022|News|0 Comments

Press Article: 1E9 by Michael Förtsch

English translation: This artist wants to build a solar space station in lunar orbit - ESA supports him. GE⊕-LPS - Greater Earth Lunar Power Station assembly in lunar orbit. A new race to the Moon has started. But this time, different nations want to go to the moon and then stay there. Research [...]

By |2023-05-31T15:50:43+02:00March 7th, 2022|Press|0 Comments
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