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Space-Based Solar Power Breakthrough to Be Announced: First-of-a-Kind Long-Distance Demonstration of Solar-Powered Wireless Power Transmission Technology

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

September 11, 2008

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following event
announcement was released by the National Space Society:

What: Space solar power could be a clean, renewable solution to
America’s long-term energy needs. John C. Mankins, former manager of NASA’s
Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, and one of the
foremost experts on space solar power, will announce on Friday a milestone
demonstration of the critical technology enabling SSP: long-distance,
solar-powered wireless power transmission.

The project demonstrated wireless power transmission between two
Hawaiian islands 148 kilometers apart, more than the distance from the
surface of Earth to the boundary of space.

It will be featured in an hour-long special that evening on Discovery
Channel as part of DISCOVERY PROJECT EARTH, an eight-part series on the
most ambitious geo-engineering ideas to tackle global climate change and
the need for new and sustainable energy sources.

Space-based solar power, in which large satellites would collect
plentiful solar energy in orbit and beam it safely down to Earth, could one
day reduce our carbon emissions to virtually zero. It is the only energy
technology that is clean, renewable, constant and capable of providing
power to virtually any location on Earth.

Mankins will describe the demonstration project and show a realistic
plan forward to develop this promising technology.

When:

Friday, September 12, 2008 at 9:30am

Where:

National Press Club, Lisagor Room

529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor

Washington, DC 20045

202-662-7500

Who:

John C. Mankins, COO of Managed Energy Technologies LLC

Mark Hopkins, Senior Vice President, National Space Society

Hosted by:

National Space Society

About National Space Society

The National Space Society (NSS) is an independent, grassroots
organization dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization.
Founded in 1974, NSS is widely acknowledged as the preeminent citizen’s
voice on space. NSS counts thousands of members and more than 50 chapters
in the United States and around the world. The society also publishes Ad
Astra magazine, an award-winning periodical chronicling the most important
developments in space. For more information about NSS, visit http://www.nss.org.

SOURCE National Space Society

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