SRC-112

Space-Based Solar Power Conversion & Delivery Systems Study, Volume III: Microwave Power Transmission Studies -- NASA-CR-150296; 1 March 1977

Raytheon Company, Equipment Division (ionospheric effects portion directed by A. H. Katz, with L. Holway and G. Meltz participating, as the Foreword states) ·1977-03 · T3 government or agency report · VC06

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CLM-0065 A Raytheon study eight months earlier, by the same authors as the lost memorandum, gave a critical power of 15 milliwatts per square centimetre, said irregularities were possible above 20, and gave a strong likelihood of significant disturbance above 50 to 70.
CLM-0066 The figure adopted in 1978 was higher than each of the lower figures in the studies it cited, though those figures were themselves uncertain by up to a factor of two.

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