Impacts of Satellite Power System technology

Harry Moses

Energy, 1979, vol. 4, issue 5, 799-809

Abstract: In the Satellite Power System (SPS) considered here, energy from the sun is collected by an array, 5 km × 10.5 km in area, located in geostationary orbit. The array contains either silicon or gallium aluminum arsenide photovoltaic cells whose output is transformed to 2.45 GHz microwaves. These are beamed to earth to a 10 km × 15 km rectifying antenna (rectenna) which rectifies the microwaves and interfaces the power with utility power lines. Each unit will produce 5 million kW of electrical power (5 GWe). Sixty such units are planned at the rate of two per year over 30 yr.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(79)90012-4

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