Various Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) proposals have been researched since the early 1970s and currently, SBSP is being researched and developed in Europe, United States, China, Australia, Japan, India, Russia, South Korea and Japan. It is widely expected that the first Solar Power Satellite (SPS) system will be built on Earth and launched into orbit [...]
Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) is currently being researched and developed in Europe, United States, China, Australia, Russia, South Korea and Japan. These ongoing SBSP efforts are testimony to the growing worldwide recognition of the potential contribution of SBSP to solving the world’s worsening climate and energy problems. If these efforts continue, they will lead to [...]
In this discussion at the Dubai Futures Forum that took place during COP 28 in 2023, the space experts allude to the eventual use of lunar resources for the manufacture of Space Solar Power components to supply Earth with sustainable clean energy. Astrostrom GmbH has been investigating the feasibility of a “Greater Earth Lunar Power [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
