R&D Scenarios of Space Solar Power Systems

Abstract

  JAXA has run the two committees with the outside member, the SSPS Economic Feasibility Committee and SSPS Technical Committee, and managed the discussion about how to promote the SSPS R&D activities which needs long and uncertain investments. Two committees concluded that practical applications of SSPS technologies have to be pursuit and the consensus of investment into SSPS technologies have to be kept. The whole discussion was concluded in “R&D Scenarios of Space Solar Power Systems”, and the outline is described in this paper.