At the invitation of China's FutureSpace corporation, I was pleased to present the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) at the MYLAKE Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Event in Chongqing, China on November 21, 2023. The theme of the event was 'One Starry Sky, One Shared Future'. This event attracted over 1,000 participants, including representatives [...]
We are pleased to report that our paper ' The Lunar Space Elevator: A Key Technology for Realising the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS)' was published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Special Issue: Future Directions for Space Elevators (Volume 76 No.7 July 2023) The issue contained the following papers: David Raitt: [...]
We were pleased to present the results of our OSIP study: The Greater Earth Lunar Power Station at the International (On-line) Conference on Energy from Space organized by ESA and the UK space agency. The Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) Arthur Woods, Andreas Vogler, Patrick Collins, Dmitrijis Gasperovics Astrostrom GmbH, 8259 Kaltenbach, Switzerland Keywords: [...]
Swiss company Astrostrom GMBH, headed by astronautical artist and researcher Arthur R. Woods, has presented an ambitious and extensive plan to provide power from space. The company’s report, running a lengthy 269 pages, details its vision of a grand, decades-long project to create a constellation of satellites that would beam free renewable power to Earth, [...]
The Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) Astrostrom GmbH has been investigating the feasibility of a "Greater Earth Lunar Power Station" (GE⊕-LPS) (*) manufactured on the Moon and assembled at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1 to provide power from lunar orbit to operations on the surface of the Moon. Once the initial station is in [...]
With the Artemis Moon exploration program (almost) in full swing, companies, organizations, and individuals with an interest in space exploration are scrambling to find the best ways and tools to kickstart a lunar civilization. Because, unlike Apollo, Artemis is taking us to the Moon to make a second home of the place. Published on autoevolution: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
