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.


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    Title :

    CONCENTRATED SUNLIGHT SPACECRAFT ARCHITECTURE


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2018-09-20


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS / F24S Sonnenkollektoren , SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS



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