Microwave energy transmission test toward the SPS using the Space Station
An outline of a project METT (Microwave Energy Transmission Test) using the Space Station is described. The objectives of the METT are to develop and test the technology of microwave energy transmission for the future Solar Power Satellite (SPS), and to estimate the environmental effects of the high power microwaves on the ionosphere and the atmosphere. Energy generated with solar cells is transmitted from a transmitting antenna on the bus platform near the Space Station to a rectenna on the sub-satellite or the ground station in order to test the total efficiency and the functions of the development system of the energy transmission. Plasma similar to that in the D and E layers in the ionosphere is produced in a large balloon opened on the sub-satellite in order to investigate possible interactions between the SPS microwave and the ionospheric plasma and to determine the maximum power density of the microwave beam which passes through the ionosphere. 9 references.
- Research Organization:
- Kobe Univ., Japan; Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan; Univ. of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan; Kyoto Univ., Japan; Tokyo Univ., Japan
- OSTI ID:
- 6054888
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8403219-
- Journal Information:
- Space Sol. Power Rev.; (United States), Vol. 5:2; Conference: 3. space energy symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 26 Mar 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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