Ad Astra Special Report - Space-Based Solar Power

Ad Astra ("to the stars"), the award winning magazine of the National Space Society (NSS), has recently published a special report covering space-based solar power (SBSP). This richly illustrated special report explains the technologies behind SBSP in an easy to understand way. Included is a fascinating conversation with Dr. Pete Glaser, now 84 and considered the father of the space-based solar power concept.

A large portion of the special report details the efforts of the Space-Based Solar Power Study Group who, in conjunction with the National Space Security Office (NSSO), published Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security - Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study in October of 2007.

This special report includes the following five articles which discuss the potential for space-based solar power, with looks at its history, its current strategic importance and ways forward to make it a reality.

• ENERGY FROM ORBIT - John C. Mankins
• AN ENERGY PIONEER LOOKS BACK - William Ledbetter
• STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE - Space-Based Solar Power Study Group
• A NEW COALITION - Arthur Smith
• ON THE MOON - Al Globus

Related Links

• National Space Society (NSS)
• adAstra - the magazine of the NSS
• Additional information on Space-Based Solar Power from the NSS
• National Space Security Office (NSSO)
• Space-Based Solar Power Study Group
• Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security
  Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study
• Citizens for Space Based Solar Power