AFRL Solar Power Project Could Guide Moving-Target-Indicator Plans

August 03, 2022
Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project graphic
An Air Force Research Laboratory graphic depicts its Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project, which aims to develop technologies needed for large-scale collection of solar power to beam back to Earth.
Credit: Air Force Research Laboratory
The idea of collecting solar power in space and beaming it down to Earth at a large scale is not new—science fiction author Isaac Asimov is credited with popularizing it in “Reason,” a 1941 short story, and several nations have been testing relevant technologies and outlining plans in recent decades...

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