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 and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
English translation: Space as a Source of Energy In search of an alternative energy resource, Astrostrom - a new company based in Kaltenbach - reaches for the Moon. On behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), the company was awarded a one-year contract to research the technical feasibility. Thomas Martens WAGENHAUSEN: In order to meet the obligations [...]
