Value chain · CLM-0516
In plain terms
Public money funded a real piece of hardware that was built and tested, not just another report -- a rare outcome in this field -- even though what it found was not entirely flattering to the design.
The claim as recorded
The CASSIE grant (one of the nine awards in the UK Space Based Solar Power Innovation Competition of 2022-2024, GBP 5,478,979 in total as summed from the published award values; CLM-0287, CLM-0515) produced at least two peer-reviewed technical outputs, including real, fabricated, measured hardware (the 112-element cross-helix array, SRC-001, CLM-0511) -- a genuine ACHIEVED technical result, not merely a paper study, though the result itself reported a real efficiency shortfall against commonly-assumed figures.
Evidence behind this: T3, the weaker of its sources: the two CASSIE papers are T2 (SRC-001, SRC-015); the government list of competition awards is T3 (SRC-297).
Scope and limits
One hardware result at small scale; whether follow-on CASSIE/CASSiDI/C3P0-A work has since been published was not established in this task (see condition 4 of Pillar 5's verdict).
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
See CLM-0510, CLM-0511.
Related records
- Answers question
- QST-002 not published in this releaseQST-005 not published in this release
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-0516
CLM-0516, Energy Aperture, as of 2024; 2026.
Connected records
Other published records linked to this one. A list, not a judgement.
- Also from SRC-001
- CLM-0511The first real, built, and measured version of CASSIOPeiA's beam-steering hardware converts electricity to radio power at 42%, against...CLM-0512The small prototype achieved a beam strength close to what a real system would use, but only over an area the size of a small table, using...CLM-0903The shared clock tells every sensor to take its reading at the same moment. How precise that clock must be depends on how fast the thing...CLM-0916The built prototype gives every single antenna its own steering circuit rather than sharing one between a group. The steering signal...CLM-0942Three documents held here give three different sizes for the same satellite's transmitting antenna. The patent says 1 to 1.5 km across and...CLM-1441Documents give the size of the CASSIOPeiA satellite design as anything from 1 to 2 km across. For a full-size version delivering 2...
- Also from SRC-297
- CLM-0287In 2023 and 2024, the UK government awarded about GBP 5.5 million in grants to 9 projects to develop space-based solar power technology and...CLM-0515Nearly half of the grant money the UK government announced in 2023 and 2024 for its space-based solar power innovation competition was...CLM-1429A search on 13 October 2026 found no published model of Britain's power system that is free to decide how much space solar power to build...