Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar
Cars That Think
APRIL 11, 2024
That’s when SSPD-1, a solar space-power demonstrator satellite carrying a bevy of new technologies designed at the California Institute of Technology, blasted into low Earth orbit for a year-long mission. That’s one of the reasons we’ve pulled away from that approach and moved toward a flat design. And yet the dream lives on.
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