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[NSS]Space Solar Power: Recent Conceptual Progress
« on: June 24, 2011, 07:16:26 am »
Space Solar Power: Recent Conceptual Progress

Lowering launch costs is critical for developing space solar power. Keith Henson at The Oil Drum proposes using Reaction Engine’s Skylon Rocket in a novel way: the  second stage propulsion would be hydrogen heated by an array of  ground-based lasers.

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