Original article (French) published in La Liberté, by Sophie Gremaud, on March 22, 2025 https://www.laliberte.ch/articles/suisse/pour-repondre-a-la-transition-energetique-lidee-fait-son-chemin-1000624 English translation: Deploying solar panels in space? The idea is gaining ground as a response to the energy transition. Space solar power, in which solar panels are deployed in space to provide clean energy for the Earth, is gaining momentum. [...]
Press article in Estonian Postimees Teadus on February 20, 2025 https://teadus.postimees.ee/8196384/eesti-teadlased-sillutavad-teed-kuul-paikeseenergia-tootmiseks English translation: TalTech senior researcher Taavi Raadik is working on a future where people will be permanently present on the Moon and solar panels will have to be made from local materials. Transporting them from Earth would be too expensive. Photo:TalTech In space, solar [...]
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke could not have stated it more clearly in 1968: "The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one, but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to a close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still [...]
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 facing humanity as it enters the next century. Be they environmental, political, economic or social, the problems are both obvious [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
