A new demo from Caltech will test the viability of unlimited solar power beamed back to Earth from orbit.
A new demo from Caltech is set to launch in January 2023, and it could shake up the way we collect and harvest solar power in the future.
"For many years, I've dreamed about how space-based solar power could solve some of humanity's most urgent challenges," Donald Bren, a member of the Caltech Board of Trustees who first proposed a space-based solar power project to Caltech's then-president Jean-Lou Chameau in 2011 and helped provide the initial seed funding for the project in 2013, said in a.
"We plan to command the deployment of DOLCE within days of getting access to [the Demonstrator] from Momentus. We should know right away if DOLCE works," said Sergio Pellegrino, co-director of SSPP and a professor of aerospace and professor of civil engineering at Caltech. was in January 2022. DOLCE will also be testing new technologies for the first time in space, and a lot can go wrong."Many times, we asked colleagues at [NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory] and in the Southern California space industry for advice about the design and test procedures that are used to develop successful missions. We tried to reduce the risk of failure, even though the development of entirely new technologies is inherently a risky process," Pellegrino said.
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