Space Solar Power – Links

Articles (chronological) – See also China, India, and Japan below

• Breaking Defense: Solar Power Sats Help Drive DoD Deep Space Push (April 29, 2021)
• SyFy Wire: Could the Air Force’s solar beaming project deliver direct power to Earth? (April 29, 2021)
• Cosmos: Beam the Sun down, Scotty (April 27, 2021)
• Task & Purpose: The Air Force has a groovy idea to beam sunshine power down from space on radio waves (April 26, 2021)
• space.com: The US Air Force wants to beam solar power to Earth from space (with video) (April 25, 2021)
• Los Alamos Daily Post: Earth Day Feature: Beaming Solar Power From Satellite Array (April 21, 2021)
• space.com: Space-based solar power getting key test aboard US military’s mysterious X-37B space plane (April 8, 2021)
• Freethink: Solar Panels in Space Could Beam Continuous Energy Back to Earth (March 20, 2021)
• Daily Mail: US Navy successfully tests an orbiting solar panel the size of a pizza box that could one day beam power from space to ANYWHERE on Earth (February 24, 2021)
• Interesting Engineering: The Space-Based Solar Arrays That Could Power Our Planet (February 24, 2021)
• CNN: A solar panel in space is collecting energy that could one day be beamed to anywhere on Earth (February 23, 2021)
• MENAFM: USA Can End Global Warming (February 23, 2021)
• Skynews Australia: China is ‘very advanced’ in space-based solar power (February 18, 2021)
• Interesting Engineering: Space-Based Solar Power Could Accelerate Transition to Sustainable Energy (February 3, 2021)
• Popular Mechanics: The Air Force Is Building a Spacecraft That Will Beam Solar Power to Earth (December 30, 2020)
• CleanTechnica: Solar Power Beamed Down To Earth From From Space Moves Forward (December 27, 2020)
• Edwards Air Force Base: AFRL Receives First Component Of Solar-Beaming Project (December 10, 2020)
• NY Jets 101: Scientists and experts think that space solar power stations could mitigate our energy problems (December 5, 2020)
• Hindu BusinessLine: Are space solar stations round the corner? (December 2, 2020)
• Aviation Week and Space Technology: Decision Time for Space-Based Solar Power (November 30, 2020)
• BBC: Solar power stations in space could help save the planet (November 26, 2020)
• Vice: Beaming Solar Power From Space to Earth Is a Sci-Fi Dream That’s Getting Closer (November 20, 2020)
• Gov.UK: UK government commissions space solar power stations research (November 14, 2020). Reported in numerous sources.
• Aviation Week: U.S. Should Consider Benefits Of Space Solar Power (October 28, 2020)
• SpaceNews: Aerospace Corp. calls for collaboration in space solar power (October 22, 2020)
• MENAFN: Howard Bloom’s Space Solar Power – The Solution To Man-Made Climate Change (October 2, 2020)
• The Hill: The Space Force’s relevance to the green agenda (September 19, 2020)
• The Drive: We Talk To The Scientist Whose Revolutionary Power Beaming Experiment Is Flying On The X-37B (July 30, 2020)
• Navy Research Laboratory: NRL conducts first test of solar power satellite hardware in orbit (May 18, 2020)
• Politico: Why the new X-37 space plane mission is a big deal: U.S. plans to pursue grand world-changing ideas like space solar power (May 16, 2020)
• Space Policy Online: Next X-37B Spaceplane Mission to Test Space-to-Earth Microwave Power Beaming (May 6, 2020)
• GeekWire: Space Force will test solar power transmission during X-37B space plane’s next mystery flight (May 6, 2020)
• Defense One: The Air Force’s Secret Space Plane Is Part of A Plan to One Day Shoot Microwaves to Earth (May 6, 2010)
• Breaking Defense: X-37B’s Next Mission To Demo Space-Based Solar Power (May 6, 2020)
• NSS Blog: Power-Beaming Demonstrated on International Space Station (April 17, 2020)
• Nanalyze: Space-Based Solar Power for Energy Transmission (April 14, 2020)
• Wonderful Engineering: Scientists Figure Out A Way To Beam Solar Energy From Space (January 22, 2020)
• Spectrum News: N.C. Researcher Says New Green Energy Tech Could Help Reverse Climate Change (January 8, 2020)
• Sustainable Energy Forms: US and China Is Trying to Harvest the Energy of the Sun (December 5, 2019)
• AME Info: Fact, not fiction: China, US, want to harvest solar energy directly in space (December 3, 2109)
• KHMER Times: China aims to build space-based solar power station (December 3, 2019)
• Xinhua Net: China to build space-based solar power station by 2035 (December 2, 2019)
• Wired: How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space (December 2, 2019)
• NetworkWorld: Space-sourced power could beam electricity where needed (November 13, 2019)
• The World News: Air Force Working On Plans To Beam Solar Energy Down From Space (November 5, 2019)
• Air Force Technology: USAF and Northrop develop space-based solar power beaming capability (October 28, 2019)
• AeroTech News: Air Force Research Laboratory developing space solar power beaming (October 26, 2019)
• Edwards Air Force Base: U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Developing Space Solar Power Beaming (October 24, 2019)
• Washington Post: How NASA could help stop climate change with solar satellites (October 23, 2019)
• Naval Research Lab: Researchers transmit energy with laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming demonstration (October 22, 2019)
• Sydney Morning Herald: Australia leans into space race for solar power with China (October 4, 2019)
• Foreign Policy: Space Research Can Save the Planet—Again (July 20, 2019)
• International Policy Digest: Shoot for the Sun: Why the U.S. Should Prioritize Space-Based Solar Power (July 19, 2019)
• The Space Review: Why the next Space Policy Directive needs to be to the Secretary of Energy (July 1, 2019)
• Foreign Policy: China Is Winning the Solar Space Race (June 16, 2019)
• Wonderful Engineering: China Will Be Setting Up A Solar Power Station In Space (April 19, 2019)
• The Strategist: Space-based solar power and 21st-century geopolitical competition (April 2, 2019)
• The Daily Galaxy: “Stupendous”–China’s Leap to Space-Based Solar Power: ‘Will Beam Sun’s Energy Back to Earth’ (March 18, 2019)
• CNBC: China plans a solar power play in space that NASA abandoned decades ago (March 17, 2019)
• Forbes: Solar Power Stations in Space Could Supply the World with Limitless Energy (March 12, 2019)
• Clean Technica: China Exploring Space-Based Solar Power (March 11, 2019)
• The Science Times: Solar Panels in Space Is the Next Frontier (March 10, 2019)
• NBC News: Solar farms in space could be renewable energy’s next frontier (March 9, 2019)
• CNN: Space power plant and a mission to Mars: China’s new plans to conquer the final frontier (March 3, 2019)
• China Daily: Scientists envision solar power station in space (February 27, 2019)
• The Hill: First the moon, now China plans to launch space-based solar power satellite (February 22, 2019)
• Nature: China sets sights on first solar power stations in space (February 20, 2019)
• Inverse.com: How China’s Space-Bound Solar Installation Will Beam Power Down to Earth (February 19, 2019)
• The Sydney Morning Herald: Plans for first Chinese solar power station in space revealed (February 15, 2019)
• Singularity Hub: Why the Future of Solar Power Is from Space (December 31, 2018)
• Phys.org: Earth’s health could benefit from space solar power, self-sustaining farms and your diet (September 13, 2018)
• Coherent Chronicle: Japan Plans to Harvest Solar Power from Space by 2030 (September 10, 2018)
• Blue & Green Tomorrow: Can Satellite Energy Help Make Our Planet More Green? (August 13, 2018)
• EarthSky: Space-based solar power: How close to reality? (July 29, 2018)
• The Space Review: Space power: a timely answer to Europe’s energy challenge (July 9, 2018)
• Next Big Future: Reusable SpaceX Falcon Heavy will make highly cost competitive space based solar power (February 5, 2018)
• PVBuzz: Is Space-Based Solar Power the Answer to a Looming Energy Crisis? (February 4, 2018)
• Next Big Future: Caltech and Grumman partner on Space Based Solar Power Initiative (February 2, 2018)
• Next Big Future: New Space based solar power designs can get to less than 2 cents per kwh (February 1, 2018)
• Chinanews: China can become first country to build solar power station in space (November 3, 2017)
• Discover: NASA Wants to Know Cost of Space Solar Power (September 30, 2017)
• Colorado School of Mines: Lange studying feasibility of space-based solar power (September 27, 2017)
• The Space Review: Better than Paris: space solar power (June 19, 2017)
• SatNews: Space Solar Power R&D Competition Initiated by NSS and SPACE Canada (May 1, 2017)
• Forbes: Trump Should Make Space-Based Solar Power a National Priority (March 18, 2017)
• Deccan Herald: Sourcing energy from space (March 7, 2017)
• Salon: Houston, we have power: Space-based solar power could be the final frontier in renewable energy (December 4, 2016)
• Smithsonian: Future of Energy What’s Next for Solar Energy? How About Space (November 4, 2016)
• RF Globalnet: Japanese Scientists Develop Long Distance Wireless Power Transmission (October 11, 2016)
• All About Circuits: An Introduction to Harvesting Solar Energy from Space (October 5, 2016)
• Take Part: The Next Space Race: Farming Solar Power in the Cosmos (June 27, 2016)
• The Space Review: Petitioning the US to take the lead in space solar power (May 31, 2016)
• Phys.org: Will orbiting flying carpets light the world? (April 8, 2016)
• The Space Review: Federal legislation to jumpstart space solar power (April 4, 2016)
• Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama should lead in space solar power (March 24, 2016)
• Popular Science: Solar Panels Grown on the Moon Could Power the Earth (March 17, 2016)
• The Space Review: US terrestrial non-fossil fuel energy vs. space solar power (March 14, 2016)
• Naval Research Laboratory: NRL Space-Based Solar Power Concept Wins Secretary of Defense Innovative Challenge (March 11, 2016)
• New Space: Lunar Based Self Replicating Solar Factory (March 10, 2016)
• South China Morning Post: China sets up laboratory to research building solar power station in space (March 8, 2016)
• The Space Review: US fossil fuel energy insecurity and space solar power (March 7, 2016)
• Blasting News: China Plans to Build Space Solar Power Stations (March 8, 2016)
• Huffington Post: Reaching For The Sun: Space-Based Solar Power Could Be the Answer to Climate Change (March 9, 2016)
• Montgomery Advertiser: Space-based solar energy wins big in DOD contest (March 3, 2016)
• Montgomery Advertiser: Space: the new frontier in clean energy (January 16, 2016)
• CNET: Could leaders at Paris summit find climate answers in space? (December 3, 2015)
• The Post (Athens, OH): Ohio University professor pioneer in renewable energy (November 29, 2015)
• Forbes: Space-Based Solar Power: Here’s How It Could Work (September 25, 2015) – Page 1 – Page 2
• Business Insider Australia: We’re getting closer to space-based solar panels that could beam unlimited energy to Earth (September 11, 2015)
• Energy magazine: Space-Based Solar Power: Science Fiction or Reality? Click here and then click on September-October 2015 issue and go to page 32.
• Discover: The Promise of Space-Based Solar Panels (May 28, 2015)
• Northrup Grumman: Space Solar Power Initiative Established by Northrop Grumman and Caltech (April 20, 2015)
• Phys.org: Harvesting energy from electromagnetic waves (April 14, 2015). See also paper: Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency
• Xinhua News: Chinese scientists mull power station in space (March 30, 2015)
• CNN: Space-based solar power: the energy of the future? (December 18, 2014)
• Pollution Solutions: Space-Based Solar Power Could Be Reality by 2030, Says Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (November 28, 2014)
• BBC Future: Space-based solar farms power up (November 18, 2014)
• The Space Review: Are solar power satellites sitting ducks for orbital debris? (September 22, 2014)
• The Energy Collective: Power Satellite Progress (September 9, 2014)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Solar Power Origami Style (August 14, 2014)
• Business Insider: What if Giant Space-Based Solar Panels Could Beam Unlimited Power to the Earth? (August 11, 2014)
• Aviation Week: New Concepts For Solar Power From Space Collectors (June 9, 2014)
• New York Times: Peter Glaser, Who Envisioned Space Solar Power, Dies at 90 (June 5, 2014)
• Japan Times: Space-based power stations on the horizon (May 27, 2014)
• The Space Review: Building a bridge to space solar power for terrestrial use (May 12, 2012)
• Extreme Tech: Japan’s 25-year plan to put a gigawatt solar power farm in space (April 28, 2012)
• IEEE Spectrum: How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm (April 24, 2014).
• Aviation Week: Low-Cost Launches May Boost Chances for Space Solar Power (April 18, 2014)
• Beyond Apollo: Solar Power Satellites: A [Historical Visual Introduction (April 18, 2014)
• Navy Research Laboratory News: Solar Power When It’s Raining: NRL Builds Space Satellite Module to Try (March 12, 2014)
• Daily Mail: US Navy reveals plot to beam power from SPACE using giant orbiting solar panels (March 17, 2014)
• Wired: The Navy’s Plan to Beam Down Energy From Orbiting Solar Panels (March 17, 2014)
• U. S. Department of Energy: Space-Based Solar Power (March 6, 2014)
• GreentechSolar: Can 3-D Printing Turn Space-Based Solar Into a Reality? (November 27, 2013)
• Space Exploration Network (SEN): Japan aims to beam solar energy down from orbit (September 28, 2013)
• Daily Mail: Plugged into the sun: Solar panel satellite could beam a THIRD of humanity’s power to Earth by 2025, claims former Nasa engineer (August 26, 2013)
• MotherBoard: This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down from Space by 2025 (August 23, 2013)
• CleanTechnica: National Space Society Will Pitch Space-based Solar Power To G8 Nations (June 18, 2013)
• The National: Solar energy plan no space oddity (June 7, 2013)
• The Economist: Manna from heaven: Solar arrays in space could meet many of Earth’s energy needs (June 2, 2013)
• Slate: Blue Sky Thinking: The entirely serious plan to collect solar energy by spaceship and beam it back to Earth with lasers (March 26, 2013)
• BBC: Space-based solar farms power up (February 27, 2013)
• Times of India: China proposes space solar power collaboration with India (November 2, 2012)
• Aviation Week: Space Solar Power Looks For Shortcuts (October 22, 2012)
• Aviation Week: Clearing the Obstacles to Space Solar Power (October 18, 2012)
• Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia enters the race for cosmic energy (September 3, 2012)
• SpaceRef.com: Is There a Future for Space-Based Solar Power? (June 11, 2012)
• Next Big Future: A new paradigm for space-based solar power (June 7, 2012)
• BBC News: Sticking solar power station where the Sun shines (with 2 videos) (May 16, 2012)
• New Energy and Fuel: NASA Starts to Get Serious On Space Based Solar Power (April 12, 2012)
• Space.com: Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth (April 6, 2012)
• Space.com: Air Force Eyes Nuclear Reactors, Beamed Power for Spacecraft (February 22, 2012)
• NBC: Air Force Plans Nuke-Powered Spacecraft, Space-Based Power Stations (February 22, 2012)
• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET): Space-Based Solar Power Could Arrive in Ten Years and Create Millions of Jobs, Say Researchers
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Projecting power: The security implications of space-based solar power (February 15, 2012)
• Discovery News: Beaming Down Earth’s Energy from Space (December 20, 2011)
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review: The Development of Space Solar Power System Technologies (Vol. 48 No. 4, December 2011) [PDF]
• National Geographic: Beam It Down: A Drive to Launch Space-Based Solar (December 5, 2011)
• Next Big Future: Space Based Solar Power Status (November 29, 2011)
• The Space Review: Making the case, again, for space-based solar power (November 28, 2011)
• Next Big Future: Major IAA Space Based Solar Power Report (November 27, 2011)
• Power-Technology.com: Giant leap for space-based solar (November 24, 2011)
• Aviation Week: Space Solar Power Seen Profitable By 2040 (print edition Nov. 21, 2011, p.20)
• ABC Science: Space solar power touted for energy needs (November 14, 2011)
• Reuters: Orbital solar power plants touted for energy needs (November 13, 2011)
• Kurzweil AI: A limitless power source for the indefinite future (November 11, 2011)
• The Space Review: National Space Strategy: proactive or reactive? (October 3, 2011)
• Observer Research Foundation: China Walks the US-India Space Solar Power Dream (September 21, 2011)
• Young Scientists Journal: Can space-based solar power save the climate? (August 1, 2011)
• China News: Chinese “Four Step” Development of Space Solar Power Station Faces Enormous Challenges (July 12, 2011)
• Photovoltaics Insider: Beaming solar power from space (July 11, 2011)
• Orbital Power Corporation: Thin Film Solar Cells (July 9, 2011)
• PTI India: Power From Space to Tackle Fukushima-Like Incidents? (June 26, 2011)
• The Economist: Beam it down, Scotty: Harvesting solar power in space, for use on Earth, comes a step closer to reality (June 23, 2011)
• The Oil Drum: Space Solar Power – Recent Conceptual Progress (June 3, 2011)
• Space Solar Power Disaster Relief – Online Journal of Space Communication, Ohio University (June 3, 2011)
• Truthout: The Race for Space-Solar Energy (April 30, 2011)
• Observer Research Foundation: Space Based Solar Power: Time to Put it on the New US-India S&T Endowment Fund? (April 2, 2011)
• The Public Record: The Race for Space Solar Energy (March 23, 2011)
• Kurzweil AI: A Radical Alternative to Nuclear Reactors (March 15, 2011)
• GE Txchnologist: Space Race: Will Space-Based Solar Take Off? (March 10, 2011)
• MSNBC: How Serious is Space Solar Power? (February 25, 2011)
• Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International (AFCEA) Signal: Space-Based Solar Power Comes Closer to Reality (December 2010)
• Aviation Week: Indian, U.S. Experts Team on Space Solar Power (November 4, 2010)
• Solar Novus Today: Space-based Solar Power: Nearing the Tipping Point? (November 2, 2010)
• The Telegraph: Lasers to beam energy to Earth from space (January 23, 2010)
• BBC News: EADS Astrium develops space power concept (December 19, 2009)
• Daily Finance: California gives green light to space-based solar power project (December 4, 2009)
• GreentechSolar: Solaren to Close Funding for Space Solar Power (December 4, 2009)
• San Francisco Chronicle: PG&E moves to add energy from wind, space (December 4, 2009)
• New York Times: Solar Plant in Space Gets Go-Ahead (December 3, 2009)
• Space.com: Controversy Flares Over Space-Based Solar Power Plans (December 2, 2009)
• California Public Utilities Commission: PG&E’s proposed power purchase agreement complies with the RPS procurement guidelines and is approved with conditions (November 20, 2009)
• Miller-McCune: Snagging Free-Range Solar Power in Space Is An Option (October 25, 2009)
• Houston Chronicle: Space-based solar power can help on energy needs, by Nick Lampson (October 22, 2009)
• Wall Street Journal: Five Technologies That Could Change Everything (Space-Based Solar Power is listed first) (October 19, 2009)
• The Space Review: An Electrifying Conference? (September 28, 2009)
• Daily Finance: Plans for solar power from outer space move forward (September 26, 2009)
• MSNBC: Making Space Power Pay (September 18, 2009)
• Toronto Star: Bright idea or sci-fi? (September 9, 2009)
• Kurzweil: Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Billion Space Solar Project (September 2, 2009)
• Environment360: Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction (August 31, 2009)
• Seed Magazine: Getting Solar off the Ground: Interview with PowerSat’s CEO William Maness (July 28, 2009)
• Reuters: Solar panel maker is out of this world (July 21, 2009)
• ars technica: Part 1: Will the stars align for space-based solar power? (July 9, 2009), Part 2: Space-based solar power: running the numbers (July 10, 2009)
• Examiner.com: First space-to-earth solar power station targeted for Oct. 2010 (July 4, 2009) [PDF 115KB]
• The Daily Galaxy: Space-Based Solar Power Gains Momentum (June 18, 2009)
• Press Release: PowerSat Files Patent That Accelerates Viability Of Space Solar Power (SSP) Satellite Systems (June 16, 2009)
• Wall Street Journal: Spaced Out: Is Solar Power From Satellites Achievable? (June 16, 2009)
• The Space Review: Should India and the US cooperate on space solar power? (June 8, 2009)
• The Space Review: SSP: a spherical architecture (June 1, 2009)
• EcoHearth.com: Space-Based Solar Power: The Time Has Come (May 25, 2009)
• Los Angeles Times: A giant leap toward space-based solar power (May 17, 2009)
• The Space Review: The vital need for America to develop space solar power (May 4, 2009)
• The Space Review: Space-based solar power: right here, right now? (April 27, 2009)
• Living on Earth: Solar Power from Space – Radio interview with John Mankins (April 24, 2009)
• Space Solar Power: Star Player on the Bench, by Darel Preble, Chair of the Space Solar Power Workshop (April 19, 2009)
• The Solution to Future Energy Needs and Global Pollution, by Leonard Weinstein (April 19, 2009)
• Scientific American: Will Space-Based Solar Power Finally See the Light of Day? (April 16, 2009)
• The story on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of the nation’s largest utilities, contracting for space solar power with the company Solaren, has generated over 100 articles (April 13, 2009). Some highlights:
  • Wall Street Journal: PG&E Looks To Outer Space For Solar Power
  • MSNBC: PG&E makes deal for space solar power
  • San Francisco Chronicle: California’s new power source a [space] solar farm
  • Universe Today: Major Utility Company Makes Agreement for Space Based Solar Power
  • Technology Review: Startup to Beam Power from Space
  • Gardian UK: US power company to tap solar energy in space
• H+ Magazine: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Howard Bloom on Space Solar Power – see page 43 (Spring 2009)
• Satellite Today: Space-based Solar Power Comes to Light (March 1, 2009)
• Space.com: Space Solar Power Crowd Bets on Obama (February 25, 2009)
• Universe Today: New Company Looks to Produce Space Solar Power within a Decade (February 18, 2009)
• In Defense of Space Solar Power by Al Globus (January 2009)
• Wall Street Journal: Obama Transition Looks at Far-Out Idea (December 11, 2008)
• Aviation Week: Pentagon Eyes Orbiting Power Station (December 9, 2008)
• The Economist: Space Solar Power: Let the Sun Shine In (December 4, 2008)
• The Space Review: Space Solar Power and the Khyber Pass (November 24, 2008)
• Futures Channel: New Documentary Sheds Light on Space Based Solar Power (November 18, 2008)
• LiveScience: Power Beaming Satellite: “One Lightbulb” Experiment (October 20, 2008)
• Treehugger: Could Solar Power Satellites Beam Down Gigawatts of Energy? (October 15, 2008)
• Time to Build! A First Look at “The Initial Plan” (October 13, 2008)
• Washington Post: Dear Mr. Future President – An Energy Fix Written in the Stars, by Ben Bova (October 12, 2008). See also translation in Spanish.
• Air Force Research Laboratory Workshop on State of Space Solar Power Technology: Rand Simberg’s blog from the Workshop (October 2, 2008) (October 3, 2008)
• Washington Business Journal: Firm sees satellite as way to grab more solar power (October 2, 2008)
• The Space Review: A step forward for space solar power (September 15, 2008)
• The Space Review: War, peace, and space solar power (September 15, 2008)
• Discovery Channel: Project Earth: Orbital Power Plant Dummie’s Guide (September 12, 2008)
• Space.com: Experiment Boosts Hopes for Space Solar Power (September 12, 2008)
• Wired Science: Researchers Beam ‘Space’ Solar Power in Hawaii (September 12, 2008)
• LiveScience: SolarSat Power Beaming Demo Revealed, by Leonard David (September 12, 2008)
• LiveScience: On the Beam? Sun-gathering Satellites for Energy-hungry Earth, by Leonard David (September 9, 2008)
• ESA funds technology for Earth and Moon base SBSP (August 15, 2008)
• Equilibri (IN ITALIAN) : Space-Based Solar Power, future energy revolution or simple experiment? (August 6, 2008)
• NPR Radio (4 min. audio): Can We Run the World off the Sun? Interview with O. Glenn Smith (July 29, 2008)
• New York Times Op Ed: Harvest the Sun – From Space (July 23, 2008)
• U. S. Chamber of Commerce Space Enterprise Council White Paper on Space-Based Solar Power (July 21, 2008)
• Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: Where the Sun Does Shine: Will Space Solar Power Ever Be Practical? (July 1, 2008)
• LiveScience: How Satellites Could Power the Future (June 18, 2008)
• CNN: How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space! (June 1, 2008)
• Ad Astra: Special Report on Space-Based Solar Power (Spring 2008)
• Popular Mechanics: Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier (January 2008)
• The Space Review: The chicken and the egg: RLVs and space-based solar power (November 19, 2007)
• Space.com: Space Based Solar Power Fuels Vision of Global Energy Security (September 19, 2007)
• USINFO: Space Solar Energy Has Future (August 20, 2007)
• Ad Astra: The Case for Solar Power from Space (January, 2004)
• Space Daily: The Case For Space Based Solar Power Development (August 11, 2003)
• IEEE Microwave Magazine: How Safe are Microwaves and Solar Power from Space? (December 2002) [PDF 7 pages 2MB]
• [email protected]: Beam It Down, Scotty! (March 23, 2001)
• Space.com: The World Needs Energy from Space, by Peter Glaser (February 23, 2000)
• Time magazine: Sunny Outlook for Sunsats (December 15, 1980)
• CHINA
  • Skynews Australia: China is ‘very advanced’ in space-based solar power (February 18, 2021)
  • Sustainable Energy Forms: US and China Is Trying to Harvest the Energy of the Sun (December 5, 2019)
  • AME Info: Fact, not fiction: China, US, want to harvest solar energy directly in space (December 3, 2109)
  • KHMER Times: China aims to build space-based solar power station (December 3, 2019)
  • Xinhua Net: China to build space-based solar power station by 2035 (December 2, 2019)
  • Foreign Policy: China Is Winning the Solar Space Race (June 16, 2019)
  • Wonderful Engineering: China Will Be Setting Up A Solar Power Station In Space (April 19, 2019)
  • The Daily Galaxy: “Stupendous”–China’s Leap to Space-Based Solar Power: ‘Will Beam Sun’s Energy Back to Earth’ (March 18, 2019)
  • CNBC: China plans a solar power play in space that NASA abandoned decades ago (March 17, 2019)
  • Clean Technica: China Exploring Space-Based Solar Power (March 11, 2019)
  • CNN: Space power plant and a mission to Mars: China’s new plans to conquer the final frontier (March 3, 2019)
  • China Daily: Scientists envision solar power station in space (February 27, 2019)
  • The Hill: First the moon, now China plans to launch space-based solar power satellite (February 22, 2019)
  • Nature: China sets sights on first solar power stations in space (February 20, 2019)
  • Inverse.com: How China’s Space-Bound Solar Installation Will Beam Power Down to Earth (February 19, 2019)
  • The Sydney Morning Herald: Plans for first Chinese solar power station in space revealed (February 15, 2019)
  • MiceTimes Asia: China started to create the first space power (December 9, 2018)
  • Chinanews: China can become first country to build solar power station in space (November 3, 2017)
  • Policy Forum: Star wars (September 7, 2016)
  • South China Morning Post: China sets up laboratory to research building solar power station in space (March 8, 2016)
  • Blasting News: China Plans to Build Space Solar Power Stations (March 8, 2016)
  • Xinhua News: Chinese scientists mull power station in space (March 30, 2015)
  • Times of India: China proposes space solar power collaboration with India (November 2, 2012)
  • The Space Review: National Space Strategy: proactive or reactive? (October 3, 2011)
  • Observer Research Foundation: China Walks the US-India Space Solar Power Dream (September 21, 2011)
  • People’s Daily of China: Space Solar Energy: a New Source of Energy in the Future? (May 30, 2011) [Chinese version]
  • Space Energy: Space Energy supporting China in reassessment of Strategic Energy Policy (May 17, 2011)
  • Sichuan International Clean Energy Summit focuses on Space Solar Power (April 12, 2010)
  • Solar Power Satellite Research in China – Online Journal of Space Communication, Winter 2010
• INDIA:
  • Times of India: China proposes space solar power collaboration with India (November 2, 2012)
  • PTI India: Power From Space to Tackle Fukushima-Like Incidents? (June 26, 2011)
  • The Daily Pioneer: Post-Japan, the hunt for the safest option (April 23, 2011)
  • National Space Society: Senior Indian Researcher Backs Joint U.S.-India Development of Space Solar Power — A Multi-National Power Source (April 4, 2011)
  • Observer Research Foundation: Space Based Solar Power: Time to Put it on the New US-India S&T Endowment Fund? (April 2, 2011)
  • World Politics Review: U.S.-India Space Cooperation Could Power Ties (October 25, 2010)
  • Thaindian News: India-US space-based solar power programme urged (September 13, 2010)
  • Times of India: Space-based solar power could solve energy crisis (July 10, 2009)
  • Technology Review: India’s Space Ambitions Soar (July 30, 2007)
  • India Going Solar in Space (July 6, 2007)
  • The Hindu: Energy from Space to be Explored (July 30, 2006)
• JAPAN:
  • Coherent Chronicle: Japan Plans to Harvest Solar Power from Space by 2030 (September 10, 2018)
  • Japan Times: Space-based power stations on the horizon (May 27, 2014)
  • JapanDailyPress: Japan looks to develop a new solar energy farm… in outer space (May 5, 2012)
  • Extreme Tech: Japan’s 25-year plan to put a gigawatt solar power farm in space (April 28, 2012)
  • IEEE Spectrum: How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm (April 24, 2012).
  • Tokyo Times: Japan to capture sunlight from orbit through spatial power stations (October 8, 2013)
  • Treehugger: Japan to launch space-based solar power system by 2030 (October 2, 2013)
  • Space Exploration Network (SEN): Japan aims to beam solar energy down from orbit (September 28, 2013)
  • Got Powered: Space solar power continues to attract Japan (July 24, 2011)
  • Renewable Energy Magazine: Japan continues to pursue dream of solar power harvested from space (July 12, 2011)
  • New book (in Japanese): Space-Based Solar Power Station by Hiroshi Matsumoto (June 25, 2011)
  • Huffington Post: Japan Takes Lead in Wireless Power? 21stC Global Energy Supply (June 14, 2009).
  • Fox News: Japan to Beam Solar Power from Space on Lasers (November 9, 2009)
  • Space Daily: Japan eyes solar station in space as new energy source (November 9, 2009)
  • Bloomberg: Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Billion Space Solar Project (September 3, 2009)
  • Nikkei.com: Japan Shooting For Space-Based Solar Power (June 28, 2009)
  • Green Car Congress: Japan to Issue Solicitiation for Development of Microwave-Based Space Solar Power System (June 28, 2009)
  • EnergyBiz: Harvesting Solar Power in Space: Japan Has High Hopes (PDF, Sept.-Oct. 2008)
  • Will Space-Based Solar-Powered Lasers Solve Our Energy Future? (July 24, 2008)
  • Scientific American: Farming Solar Energy in Space (July 1, 2008)
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) testing space solar power system (February 8, 2008)
  • Orbiting Space Power Systems Would Convert Sunlight into Laser Beams (September 7, 2007)
  • Electricity from orbiting solar-powered lasers (September 6, 2007)
  • Kyoto University projects on space solar power, including the Microwave Lifted Airplane eXperiment (MILAX) with video [MPEG 4MB, open with Microsoft Media Player]
  • JAXA: Practical Application of Space-Based Solar Power Generation

NSS web pages devoted to SSP

• NSS Space Solar Power Library
• New Developments in Space Solar Power. John C. Mankins. NSS Space Settlement Journal. December 2017.
• NSS Position Paper on Space Solar Power [PDF]
• NSS Blogs on Space Solar Power
• Mafic Studios images on space solar power
• Brochure on Space-Based Solar Power [PDF]
• Press Conference on First International Assessment of Space Solar Power
• Kalam-National Space Society Energy Technology Universal Initiative: An International Preliminary Feasibility Study on Space Based Solar Power Stations [PDF]

Other web pages devoted to SSP (alphabetical)

• Boeing: Harnessing the Sun
• Citizens for Space Based Solar Power
• Energy Cast podcast on space solar power with Paul Jaffe, PhD, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, January 21, 2019 (30 min)
• International SunSat Design Competition
• Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): Practical Application of Space-Based Solar Power Generation
• Mitsubishi Electric: How Solarbird Works
• Moon Society Solar Power Beaming Desktop Demo Unit Online Kit
• Power Beaming Motivation, Technology, Demonstrations and Development PDF slides by Paul Jaffe, PhD, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
• PowerSat Corporation
• Research and Markets: Analyzing Microwave Power Transmission & Solar Power Satellite Systems (expensive report dated October 2009; we have not seen it)
• Space-Based Solar Power – Public discussion of 2007 National Security Space Office study of space solar power
• Space Based Solar Power – Wikipedia
• Space Canada – Solar Power Alternative for Clean Energy
• Space Environment Technologies: The Vision for Producing Fresh Water Using Space Solar Power
• Spacefaring America: Space Solar Power – Mike Snead’s weblog includes extensive articles on Space Solar Power and America’s Future
• SpaceFuture.com Space Power section
• Space Solar Power – from the Space Development Steering Committee
• Spaceport Operations Assessment for Space Solar Power Earth to Orbit Transportation Requirements – from NASA Kennedy Space Center
• Space Solar Power Disaster Relief – Online Journal of Space Communication, Ohio University
• Space Solar Power Info – News and Blog by QualityPoint Technologies (India)
• Space Solar Power Institute – solarsat.org
• Space Solar Power (SSP) – A Solution for Energy Independence & Climate Change – position paper submitted to the Obama-Biden Transition Team at Change.gov, with public comments
• Space Solar Power Systems Journal – Volume 1 (2016) – Volume 2 (2017) – Volume 3 (2018) – Abstracts in English, papers in Japanese
• Space Solar Power Workshop
• SSP Monitor
• U. S. Department of Energy: Space-Based Solar Power
• A Sunlight-to-Microwave Power Transmission Module Prototype for Space Solar PDF slides by Paul Jaffe, PhD, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Videos

• Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project (SSPIDR) (Air Force Research Laboratory, 2 minutes)
• Power Beaming and Space Solar Innovation (Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center [HDIAC], 1 hour, July 2020)
• Space Solar Table Top Demo (Naval Research Lab, 1.5 minutes, May 2020)
• PRAM (Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module) tested in space (Naval Research Lab, 2 minutes, May 2020)
• Space Solar Power Explained (Naval Research Lab, 1 minute, May 2020)
• Power-Beaming Demonstrated on International Space Station (4 minutes, April 2020)
• Energy transmitted by laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming demonstration (Naval Research Lab, 3 minutes, October 2020)
• TRT World Rountable: Space Solar: Science Fiction or New Frontier (26 minutes, September 2019)
• Space Solar: Common Ground from Space (9 minutes, October 2018)
• D3 Space Solar Power Presentation (11 minutes, March 4, 2016)
• Space Solar Power (Enzspannen Research, India, 7 minutes, August 27, 2015)
• Dr. Paul Jaffe, Naval Research Lab, on SSP (1.5 minutes, August 1, 2015)
• John Mankins on Space Solar Power at 2014 ISDC (29 minutes, May 15, 2014)
• Why Should We Launch Solar Panels Into Space? (3 minutes, May 5, 2014)
• Explaining the Future: Space-Based Solar Power (7 minutes, May 4, 2014)
• Evaluating Alternative Sources of Energy: Solar Energy from Space, talk by Paul Jaffe, PhD (67 minutes, March 20, 2014)
• Press Conference on First International Assessment of Space Solar Power (91 minutes, November 14, 2011)
• Georgia Tech School of Engineering: Space Power Grid (August 28, 2011)
• Spacefaring Institute: Space Solar Power (14 minutes, July 14, 2011)
• SBSP Disaster Relief (4 minutes, June 1, 2011)
• Space Based Solar Power in Sun-Synchronous Orbit (4 minutes, May 25, 2011)
• Space Solar Power and Space Energy Systems – Space Manufacturing 14 Conference, October 31, 2010:
  • Dr. Phil Chapman: Making it Happen (PDF)
  • John Mankins: Space Solar Power – Achievable Within a Generation? (PDF)
  • Al Globus: Towards an Early Profitable PowerSat (PDF)
• NewSpace 2010 Space Solar Power Panel (72 minutes, July, 2010)
• Seawater Desalination via Solar Power Satellites (4 minutes, May, 2010)
• TED Talk on Space Based Solar Power by Peter Sage of Space Energy, Inc. (18 minutes, October, 2009).
• Space Solar Power: Exploring New Frontiers for Tomorrow’s Energy Needs (NASA DVD, 1 hour 45 minutes, 2002)
• Space Canada Promotes Solar Energy From Space (6 minutes, April, 2009)
• Powering the Planet – preview of the Futures Channel documentary about Space Solar Power (4 minutes, November 4, 2008).
• Message to the next President of the United States (5 minutes, July, 2008)
• European Space Agency – Solar Power Satellites (5 minutes, July 2008)
• Dr. Peter Glaser, inventor of the space solar power concept, speaks on SSP (9 minutes, 2002).
• Electricity from Orbit: The Case for R & D, lecture by Marty Hoffert, Professor Emeritus of Physics at New York University (55 minutes, December 5, 2007)
• Mafic Studios animation of latest SSP design (1 minute, October, 2007)
• NASA Wireless Power Transmission Demonstration (2 minutes, 2002)

Audio (mostly from The Space Show)

• Dr. Paul Jaffe of the Naval Research Lab on Space Solar Power. March 29, 2020.
• Mike Snead, president and founder of the Spacefaring Institute, on Space Solar Power focused on environmental and U.S. national energy security issues. May 13, 2016. [Info] [Program]
• Christopher Stone, Lt. Col. Pete Garretson, USAF: Space based solar power D3 competition. March 6, 2016. [Info] [Program]
• Brent Sherwood, Manager of Strategic Planning & Project Formulation for the seven business lines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Space Solar Power (SSP), climate change, SSP demos, SSP economics. August 3, 2015. [Info] [Program]
• Gordon Woodcock, with 59 years experience in aerospace engineering at Boeing, NASA, and elsewhere. Financial analysis for an SSP Power System. June 14, 2013. [Info] [Program]
• Hubert P. Davis, former Manager of the Advanced Systems Office at NASA Johnson Space Center, talks about SSP. August 15, 2010. 86 minutes. [Info] [Program]
• Peter Sage of Space Energy with sage advice on the business case for SSP. December 8, 2009. 96 minutes. [Info] [Program]
• Ralph Nansen, author of Sun Power. October 18, 2009. 94 minutes. [Info] [Program]
• Darel Preble, Chair of the Space Solar Power Workshop at Georgia Tech. Audio only from forthcoming video. July 29, 2008. 60 minutes. [Info] [Program]
• Col. M. V. “Coyote” Smith, USAF, Director of the Space Based Solar Power Feasibility Study for the National Security Space Office. June 10, 2008. First 40 minutes of program. [Info] [Program].
• LtCol. Paul E. Damphousse, USMC, Chief Engineer for the Communications Functional Integration Office of the National Security Space Office. October 19, 2007. 2 hours 10 minutes. [Info] [Program]
• Col. M. V. “Coyote” Smith, USAF, Director of the Space Based Solar Power Feasibility Study for the National Security Space Office. August 1, 2007. 90 minutes. [Info] [Program].
• Darel Preble, Chair of the Space Solar Power Workshop at Georgia Tech. March 8, 2007. 2 hours. [Info] [Program]
• John Mankins, President of the Space Power Association. October 17, 2006. 1 hour 50 minutes. [Info] [Program]