{"id":736032,"date":"2022-09-26T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736032"},"modified":"2022-09-26T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:20:00","slug":"plan-to-research-solar-power-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736032","title":{"rendered":"Plan to research solar power from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"SOLARIS R&amp;D programme\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sun never stops shining in space, and it is much more intense there than on the surface of the Earth. So what if we could gather that energy up in space then beam it down to Earth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/SOLARIS\/Cost_vs._benefits_studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Recent studies<\/a> funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Preparation element of ESA\u2019s Basic Activities programme<\/a>, show the concept, called Space-Based Solar Power, is theoretically workable and could support the path to decarbonising the energy sector. However, significant uncertainties and technical challenges remain. In response ESA is proposing a R&amp;D programme to mature the concept and its critical technologies \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/SOLARIS\/SOLARIS2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SOLARIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/SOLARIS\/Plan_to_research_solar_power_from_space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plan to research solar power from space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun never stops shining in space, and it is much more intense there than on the surface of the Earth. So what if we could gather that energy up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}