Three-year-old space Solar has completed an engineering and development project of 18 months for important parts of its modular space-based solar energy system.
UK Startup Space Solar has completed tests of its powerful technology with his Harrier demonstrator, along with completing sub-system studies.
The three-year-old company said that it had completed a project of 18 months, GBP1.7 million ($ 2.26 million), known as Cassidi, with regard to the assessment of its wireless electricity beam, in-space assembly process and soil development technology, as well as a 1,700 pages of sub-system design document.
“The project consisted of engineering design and development to promote the technical maturity of our space-based solar energy system, including how the very modular solar energy satellite is assembled in a job,” said Space Solar Co-Coo, Martin Soltau, PV Magazine.
The modular solar energy -satellite that uses space -sun -zon, is known as Constant opening fixed state Integrated Orbital Phased Array (Cassiopeia). “As part of this, we have built our Power Beaming technology and successfully tested the beam through 360 degrees without moving parts, and this is the core of the excellent economy of Cassiopeia,” Soltau said.
The project was funded by the UK Space Agency and the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DSNZ) and involved 22 partner organizations. It confirmed both the technical and economic viability of the system, “according to Soltau who stated that the following steps to the target mass and cost calculations for the operational system are now clear.
When PV -Magazine Earlier reported, the technology of the British company entails when sending a satellite, Cassiopeia, to a job to be equipped with a prefabricated system of solar reflectors and thousands of lightweight PV modules to capture solar energy from space to ground recipients from space to ground recipients.
It is a solid state system that depends on high-frequency radio waves. The statement is that the “constant, weather -independent power output” makes it possible.
Space Solar is intended to order its first Megawatt scale Commercial System within 5 years, with arrays with a much larger capacity that has been added within 12 years. It is one of the many efforts that are going on with others Walking in the USAnd in South Korea, and also an initiative in Europe.
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