Satellite Power Systems (SPS): concept development and evaluation program, preliminary assessment

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5696626· OSTI ID:5696626

The Satellite Power System (SPS) is an emerging concept for capturing solar energy in space for use in producing electrical energy on earth. To develop an understanding of the technical and economic feasibility and of the environmental and societal acceptability of the SPS is an enormous challenge. The Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are engaged in a three-year assessment of the SPS that began in the fall of 1977 and will be completed in the summer of 1980. The DOE/NASA assessment is engaging the efforts of many organizations in the United States and is developing a large body of information. At approximately the mid-point of the assessment, this preliminary project assessment report describes what has been done and what has been learned with an emphasis on the overriding issues.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Energy Research
• OSTI ID: 5696626
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER-0041
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140600 -- Solar Energy-- Photovoltaic Power Systems
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ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
NASA
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ORBITAL SOLAR POWER PLANTS
POWER PLANTS
SOCIAL IMPACT
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS