SSP Recommended Readings

Introductory Reading:

• Innovation Frontier Project, 2021 – Space Solar Power: An Extraterrestrial Energy Resource for the U.S.

 

News Articles

• POWER, 2024: Space Solar Power for U.S. Energy Independence

• Wired, 2024: The Race for Space Solar Power

• Financial Times, 2023: How to make space solar power a reality

• New York Times, 2023: Looking to Space in the Race to Decarbonize

• Science, 2022: Space Solar Power is getting serious—can it solve Earth’s energy woes?

• The Guardian, 2022: Beam me down: can solar power from space help solve our energy needs?

 

Articles For Policymakers

• America Must Win the Race for Space Solar Power or buy it from China

• Beyond Earth Institute, 2021: Catching the Sun: A National Strategy for Space Solar Power

• Space News, 2024: NASA study: clean, space solar power beaming is possible

• Space Policy Journal, 2022: Space Solar Power as a Catalyst for Space Development

• George Washington University, 2024: Sunrise in Orbit – A Policy Roadmap for Space Solar Power

• Amendment to Bill H.R.2988, By Rep. Mullin (CA-15) to add SSP to the DOE and NASA Interagency Coordination Act, 2023

• Amendment to Bill H.R.6131, By Rep. Mullin (CA-15) and Rep. McCormick (GA-6) to add SSP study to the Commercial Space Act. 2023

 

Articles for Strategists

• American Foreign Policy Council, 2022: The Promise of Space Solar Power

• The Strategist, 2022: The race to develop space solar power is heating up

• Naval Research Laboratory, 2019: Opportunities and Challenges for Space Solar for Remote Installations

• CNBC, 2019: China plans a solar power play in space that NASA abandoned decades ago

 

Articles for Energy professionals

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), 2023: Space Solar Power for Global Decarbonization

• Energy Voice, 2024: Could space solar power be the world’s next energy frontier?

• IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2021: Microwave and Millimeter Wave Power Beaming

 

Articles for Venture Capitalists & technologists

• The Aerospace Corporation, 2021: Space Solar Power: A Near-Term Investment Decision

• Erik Kulu, 2024: Space Solar Power: Updated Survey of Private Initiatives

• Erik Kulu, 2023: Space Solar Power – 2023 Survey of Public and Private Initiatives

 

Articles for Environmentalists

• UK Space Energy Initiative, 2022: Life Cycle Assessment of the UK Space Energy Initiative Technology Roadmap

• Keio University, Japan, 2000: CO2 Emission from Solar Power Satellite through its Life Cycle

 

Detailed Studies

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2024: Space Solar Power by the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy

• European Space Agency (ESA) SOLARIS, 2022: The Case for an ESA preparatory programme for Space Solar Power for terrestrial energy needs

• European Space Agency (ESA) SOLARIS, 2022: Cost vs Benefit Studies

• European Space Agency (ESA) SOLARIS, 2023: Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) Study

 

FAQs

• European Space Agency (ESA): Frequently Asked Questions on Space Solar Power

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI): Technology Innovation Spotlight – Space Solar Power: Frequently Asked Questions