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Solar Power Satellite System Definition Study, Final Report for Phase III, Volume 2: Final Briefing, D180-25969-2, NASA-CR-160743, June 1980

Commissioned by NASA Johnson Space Center, contract NAS9-15636. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-0986 The beam-machine speeds in these studies were chosen off a curve, with the operating figure set where going faster stopped helping, and the five metres a minute used elsewhere was a planning assumption that the machine-builders thought could be doubled.

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