SRC-642

Statement of the Manager, Advanced Concepts Studies, Office of Space Flight, NASA, before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, 7 September 2000 (space solar power), as republished by the National Space Society ("Testimony ... before House Science Committee Hearings on Solar Power Satellites"), browser print

NASA (the then Manager, Advanced Concepts Studies, Office of Space Flight, as witness; recorded by role, DN-19); republished by the National Space Society ·2000 · T5 conference paper, expert statement or specialist press · VC10 XC01 XC02

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CLM-1272 In 2000 NASA sketched a path from small demonstrations around 2006 to a first full-size power satellite prototype between 2025 and 2035, and very large systems after 2050. None of it was funded, and none of the dated steps has happened in a held source.
CLM-1274 NASA said its programme had built a test solar panel that it expected to lead to arrays more than three times lighter per watt than the best of the day, kept its power beams to about a tenth of midday sunlight for safety, and found that the very high voltages assumed in 1979 would not work in space.

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