Value chain · CLM-0501
In plain terms
A 2024 Chinese satellite design concept plans to beam down microwaves twice as strong as CASSIOPeiA's own typical figure, and its designers do not appear to have considered the upper-atmosphere stability question at all.
The claim as recorded
A 2024 Chinese Academy of Space Technology concept (Modular Multirotary Joints SPS) models a peak ground power density of about 460 W/m2 at 5.8 GHz for a 1 GW-class system with a 10.5km x 100m transmit array from GEO, with first and second sidelobes at 22 and 7.5 W/m2, and does not mention the ionosphere anywhere in the paper.
Scope and limits
A simulated design concept, not a flown or independently reviewed system; the absence of ionospheric discussion could reflect the paper's own scope choice rather than a considered judgement that the constraint does not bind.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
PDF p8: with 5 m x 5 m elements, M = 2000 and N = 20, the simulated ground distribution (Fig. 9) has a main lobe of about 30 km x 300 m with the highest power density about 460 W/m2 and first and second sidelobes of about 22 and 7.5 W/m2 (sentence read verbatim at VER-716); 1 GW class at PDF p5, GEO at PDF p6; "ionosph" returns zero occurrences over all 14 pages.
Basis: W/m2, simulated peak ground beam intensity, 5.8 GHz, 1 GW-class system
Related records
- Answers question
- QST-001 not published in this release
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-0501
CLM-0501, Energy Aperture, as of 2024.
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