{"title":"Satellite solar array with laser downlink to denver","authors":"P. Christopher","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYTECH.2013.6645349","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Gerard O'Neill's outstanding satellite solar array concepts are updated from geostationary systems to include sun synchronous low earth orbits and Brandon Molniya orbits. The low earth orbits would offer low cost and Brandon orbits would offer the convenience of stationary ground antennas. Ten micron laser links are studied for low cost and low cloud attenuation.","PeriodicalId":154402,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Energytech","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE Energytech","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYTECH.2013.6645349","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gerard O'Neill's outstanding satellite solar array concepts are updated from geostationary systems to include sun synchronous low earth orbits and Brandon Molniya orbits. The low earth orbits would offer low cost and Brandon orbits would offer the convenience of stationary ground antennas. Ten micron laser links are studied for low cost and low cloud attenuation.