Strategic energy alternatives have assumed new importance in light of growing energy demand, supply stress and environmental stress. The established energy and aerospace corporations and agencies are not programmatically or financially capable of pursuing the high risk development necessary to build a Space Solar Power System (SSPS). The best means to pursue the great promise which SSP holds for America and the world is the formation of a congressionally chartered private corporation analogous to the extremely successful COMmunications SATellite (COMSAT) Act of 1962. Just as COMSAT, with it's sibling, INTELSAT, another congressionally chartered corporation, opened space to a hundred varieties of communication satellites, so the SpAce Solar PoweR satELLite corporation Act (SASPARILLA) could open space to SSP. Whereas the COMSAT Act was chartered to build commercial communications, SASPARILLA will be chartered to build commercial SSP satellites to collect and transmit energy to electric power grids on earth. The record for COMSAT shows that 39 years after COMSAT'S charter, the top 53 Space companies achieved $56 Billion in direct year 2000 space derived revenue (Space News, 7/30/01), due to the visionary developmental work Congress initiated through COMSAT and INTELSAT'S corporate leadership.


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    Title :

    The SpAce Solar PoweR sateLLite corporation Act (SASPaRiLLA)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Eighth International Conference on Engineering, Construction, Operation, and Business In Space; Fifth International Conference and Exposition and Demonstration on Robotics for Challenging Situations and Environments ; 2002 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2002-06-07




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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