Stargazing Guy

Another amazing concept, like space elevators, with a long pedigree in science fiction and scientific speculation.

From Isaac Asimov’s 1941 short story, Reason, to Gerard K O’Neil’s The High Frontier, space-based solar power satellites provide the emotional drivers and scientific background that can’t be kept down.

The University of Southampton’s recent exciting new publication, Space at Southampton 2022, showcasing some of the inspiring and pioneering space-related research taking place provides extensive coverage of space-based solar power.

Day 2 of the British Interplanetary Society’s 19th Reinventing Space Conference on 28 and 29 November 2022 is focused on Space Energy Applications and:

“The opportunities and challenges for providing and harnessing energy in space for in-space or terrestrial power applications.”

The UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency are both supporting the area.

The possibility of limitless power, the transfer of manufacturing and energy production off Earth and opening up space to all is an intriguing and exciting prospect – watch this space.