A concentrated sunlight spacecraft architecture system comprising a sunlight concentrator assembly connectively attached to a spacecraft and configured to gather sunlight over a large area and direct the gathered sunlight to a smaller area, an optical waveguide, an optical distributor, and at least one of a plurality of spacecraft subsystems configured to receive and use the gathered sunlight. In an embodiment of the invention, the plurality of the spacecraft subsystems includes a solar thermal propulsion system, a power storage system, and a resource extraction system.
CONCENTRATED SUNLIGHT SPACECRAFT ARCHITECTURE
2018-09-20
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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