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Synergies Between Solar Power Supply from Space and Passenger Space Travel

Published:	2004
Author:	Patrick Collins
Origin:	4th International Conference on Solar Power from SPACE, SPS '04, Granada
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Abstract:	Energy supply from space, as proposed by Peter Glaser in 1968, requires low launch costs in order to be economic, which can only be achieved through large-scale operations of reusable launch vehicles. From market research and feasibility studies performed over the past decade, passenger space travel services, which also require low launch costs, appear to have the potential to develop into an industry as large as passenger air travel. The paper discusses the synergistic relationship between power supply from space and passenger space travel, whereby each may require the other for its realisation. While governments have been slow to adopt energy policies needed to avoid energy shortages and environmental destruction, the need for new industries to reduce record levels of unemployment world-wide may stimulate the development of passenger space travel - which could in turn stimulate the development of space-based solar power supply systems.
References:	An Evolutionary Satellite Power System for International Demonstration in Developing Nations Characteristics of Commercial Power Systems to Support a Prosperous Global Economy Space Solar Power: A Fresh Look at the Feasibility of Generating Solar Power in Space for Use on Earth Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan, and its Implications for Future Space Activities Economically Viable Public Space Travel Researching the Space Tourism Market Commercial Space Transportation Study Public Space Markets - What We Know and What We Don't Know Status Report on Space Tour Vehicle Kankoh-Maru of Japanese Rocket Society A Preliminary Feasibility Study of the Spacecab Low-cost Spaceplane and of the Spacecab Demonstrator General Public Space Travel and Tourism - Volume 1 Executive Summary A Common Cost Target of Space Transportation for Space Tourism and Space Energy Development Liquid Hydrogen Industry: A Key for Space Tourism Energy Implications of Future Stabilisation of Atmospheric CO2 Content Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet Collaboration with Aviation - The Key to Commercialisation of Space Activities Space Tourism: A Remedy for 'Crisis in Aerospace' Space Tourism: Recent Progress and Future Prospects
Referred to by:	What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace

Related Entries:	Peter Glaser SpaceShipOne LEO Japanese Rocket Society Space Transportation Association LOX LH2 Takumi Hanada Scaled Composites
Keywords:	Tourism , Power

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