The Space Solar: Satellites, the Space Energy Initiative and Beyond webinar took place on 9 March 2023. The event brought together leading UK researchers in the Space Solar field with the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts scientist and award winning science fiction author Geoffrey Landis to discuss the latest exciting developments. Some of the presentations have kindly been made available by the speakers to download.

The webinar recording is available to view here

The webinar was chaired by SuperSolar Director Prof Mike Walls and featured:

Geoffrey Landis (NASA Advanced Concepts) “Space Solar Power for Earth: Choice of Orbits”

Louise Hirst (University of Cambridge) “Ultra-Thin Photovoltaics for Space Based Solar Power”

Dan Lamb (Swansea University) “From Lab to Low Earth Orbit – a cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell flight test” From lab to Low Earth orbit – a cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell flight test_public

Ian Cash (International Electric Company Ltd) “CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite” CASSIOPeiA-Solar-Power-Satellite-Super-Solar-Webinar-09-05-2023