getting space islands off the ground
Jon Goff of Selenian Boondocks cornered Gene Meyers of Space Islands Group a few months ago after the last session of the ACES conference. He has some good ideas for closing SIG's business plan, such as offering cheap space-based solar power satellites to both China and India (and having them bid against each other); using small low earth orbit- based solar power satellites to power microwave thermal rockets for the LEO-to-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit stage as an intermediate step to building the big GEO satellites; and even subsidizing demand for reusable launch vehicles.
As the chief engineer for one of the small space companies that SIG would fund, I am all for anything that can close Space Island Group's business case.
Technorati Tags: Space
2 comments:
I may be wearing my ignorance on my sleeve, but out of curiousity, which space company are you chief engineer with?
Well, I actually haven't mentioned the company before. Xenotech Research - we're working on the solar-thermal-electric generators that would be at the heart of solar power satellites.
Post a Comment