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Electrostatic Protection of the Solar Power Satellite and Rectenna, Part II - Lightning Protection of the Rectenna -- NASA CR-3345; Contract NAS8-33023; November 1980

Commissioned by Marshall Space Flight Center, Contract NAS8-33023. 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-1101 Lightning will hit a ten-kilometre receiver often, so Rice designed a grounded conductor into its structure at every bay, costing under one per cent of the collecting area; a single diode survives an ordinary strike, but the forty-thousand-volt strings they are wired into do not, and need the same surge protection as any transmission line.

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