Solar Power Satellite VII

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Defending solar power satellites:

Solar power satellites would normally be at a high orbit that is difficult to reach, and hence attack.

However, it has been suggested that a large enough quantity of granular material placed in a retrograde orbit at the geostationary altitude could theoretically completely destroy these kinds of system and render that orbit useless for generations.

Whether this is a realistic attack scenario is arguable, and in any case at the present time there is only a small list of countries with the necessary launch capability to do this, such an attack would probably be considered an act of war by every single nation (except the attacker, which would lose its satellites, too) with satellites in geostationary orbit, and an attack with more conventional anti-satellite weapons would probably be considered an act of war by the nation whose satellite was attacked.

In any case, the receiving stations on the ground, and conventional power generators (which are unlikely to be completely replaced by solar power satellites), are more easily attacked.

Computer security may be a bigger issue than physical defense, since launch capabilities aren't necessary to hack a satellite for purposes of malicious orbital "corrections", extortion (by threatening to destabilize its orbit) or outright "grand theft satellite".

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Proyek ini merupakan bagian dari penelitian Institute for Advanced Concepts NASA (NIAC) yang dipimpin oleh Dr John Mankins dari Artemis Innovation. The University of Strathclyde mewakili konsorsium internasional Eropa yang melibatkan para peneliti dari Amerika dan sebuah tim dari Jepang yang dipimpin oleh Profesor Nobuyuki Kaya dari Universitas Kobe, yang saat ini merupakan acuan dunia dalam teknologi wireless power transmission (transmisi energy tanpa kabel).

Penelitian yang dilakukan NIAC ini menunjukkan desain konseptual baru untuk satelit tenaga surya skala besar. Peran tim dari University of Strathclyde adalah untuk mengembangkan solusi inovatif pada elemen struktural dan solusi baru untuk mengorbitkan satelit sel surya dan kontrol orbitnya.

Kunjungi Juga:

• Space Solar Power - from the Space Development Steering Committee
• Space Solar Power - An Earth to Orbit Challenge - from NASA Kennedy Space Center
• Space Solar Power Disaster Relief - Online Journal of Space Communication, Ohio University
• Space Solar Power Info - News and Blog by QualityPoint Technologies (India)
• Space Solar Power Information Service
• Space Solar Power Institute - solarsat.org
• Space Solar Power (SSP) - A Solution for Energy Independence & Climate Change - position paper submitted to the Obama-Biden Transition Team at Change.gov, with public comments
• Space Solar Power Workshop
• SSP Monitor

Lihat Juga:

Indonesian Space Sciences & Technology School

Indonesian University Space Research Association

Semoga Bermanfaat.

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