As a participant in Soleil·s - the 2nd Solar Biennale - taking place at the mudac (Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains) in Lausanne from 21 March to 21 September 2025, Astrostrom will present its vision of harnessing solar energy from space and the potential key role that Switzerland could play in the [...]
On May 28, 2024, I was pleased at the invitation from EPFL to speak about my background, Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP), our ESA funded study 'Greater Earth Lunar Power Station' and a SBSP Case Study for Switzerland. To address the energy and climate crises, renewed interest in Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) is being [...]
Astrostrom was represented by Dr. Patrick Collins at the International Conference on Energy From Space which took place in London, 17-19 April 2024. Patrick delivered two presentations and participated in a round table discussion on Policy and Collaboration on Tuesday April 18. The first presentation was: Advantages of Equatorial Orbits for SPS Demonstrator Satellites Developing [...]
Astrostrom had a very busy week at the 2024 Luxembourg Space Resources week as an event partner, presenter and visioneering its approach to Space-Based Solar Power. On the first day of the event, Katriin Kristmann from Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) presented their work on Monograin Layer (MGL) photovoltaics made from lunar regolith. Astrostrom [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
English translation: Power Plant in Space Solar Power from Space for the Earth A company in Canton Thurgau is now researching the feasibility - on behalf of the European Space Agency. SRF1, Regionaljournal Ostschweiz Friday , 10.12.2021, 14:34 Uhr https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/kraftwerk-im-weltraum-solarstrom-aus-dem-weltall-fuer-die-erde The idea sounds like science fiction: Huge satellites equipped with solar panels are [...]
English translation: Arthur Woods wants to Build a Solar Power Satellite Factory on the Moon A “space artist” who wants to create the breakthrough in clean energy from space – a somewhat special request from Arthur Woods, without an engineering degree or any specific training in the field. And yet, his idea has been recognized [...]
